hard drive enclosures

[brianluce]

My old desktop won't turn on. The hard drive is new though, it was a single hard drive machine, ie, the OS and files were on a single, partitioned hard drive.

If I want to retrieve some of the data off the Hdd, can I merely put the old hdd into a external enclosure, hook up usb and extract the data onto my laptop? Or will the old OS turn my laptop in to a jellyfish?

 

[DivotDan]

assuming the drive is not dead, yes.....hook it up to your laptop and get your files.

 

[brianluce]

assuming the drive is not dead, yes.....hook it up to your laptop and get your files.

Looks like the hdd enclosure I got is for the fat ribbon type of Hdd, my hdd has the skinny one, I guess this is ide versus sata? Anyway, do they make an adapter for connecting newer style data cables to external enclosures set up for the old style fat ribbons?

 

[mjjason]

newegg.com is your friend. Any computer part you need. And I do believe the have Pata (ide) to sata connectors. Not sure if they work great though

 

[MiniMan13]

Any computer part you need. And I do believe the have Pata (ide) to sata connectors. Not sure if they work great though

i would recommend against it, just get a different hard drive case
But newegg does own!

 

[rook]

yes, they have them. You can get them for about 20 to 30 bucks.

I don't know newegg but tigerdirect has them. They will connect any sata to usb2

-rook

 

[DivotDan]

I use one of these, great for this sort of thing. Plus it comes with HDD protectors.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119152