Finally, I found the tutorial that is truly useful for those of us who have old and new 2.5" IDE's and can't get them to work. I have new and old hard drives that I haven't been able to make work as external drives. The most helpful part of this video was the instructional on how to format a new, or old, hard drive. Cheers m8

thank you! ive been looking around trying to figure out how to do this and you put it in the most simple, quickest, and most understandable steps, people who know nothing about electronics could do this the way you explained it, people need to explain things like that

Your videos are really good, it’s easy to follow and understand when you explain. Thank you so much!

Great video. I had to take my 2.5 SATA hard drive out of a fully working but very out of date Toshiba Equuim with windows XP today. This laptop had served me well.

Thank you, man.. I got the HDD and the external USB for it, but didn't know what to do.. your vid helped me formatted it. and it works.

Thank you for the video! It was exactly what I was looking for! I have an old Fujitsu hard drive and I didn't know how to find a case for it! You have been a huge help!!!!

Compared to SATA the IDE will be a lot slower. IDE is using a parallel data type transfer. The SATA is a very high speed serial type data. SATA may also show as SCSI in the drive properties, because SATA with some types of drives will emulate SCSI.

Thank you cleared up a lot of procedure issues for me.

fantastic !! Nice video, he explained all thing in very good manner and smartly.. Thanks !!

Very well explained process with minimal compu-speak. Thank you immensely!

thanks for the video, explained in a really good way :)

Thank you so much this is so helpful, I fix my hard drive because of you it wasn't showing on my computer and now it's working great I did exactly what you said in the video. have a great day

omg thank you so much i just finished salvaging our old cpus since we had a small computer shop before and i was wondering if i could see the contents again haha

Is it possible to find/build an external hard drive casing for a 3.5" IDE hard drive with power supply? I took 2 IDE drives out of different old computers, one needs a power connection and the other has a powered bus.

I have done this and it is very convinient and money saving.

Thank You Brotha!!!!

Thanks buddy i really get a lot of information about 3.5 hard drive again thanks😊😊😊😊☺

Decent video dude. The enclosures for ole IDE internal hard drives are friggin difficult to find. However I have an usb 2.0 to IDE SATA adapter that little device is useful. But you would have to be careful not to move it around. Got it from walmart canada more than a year ago, before standard shipping fee jumped from 15.00 to 100.00 to northern area.

is ide to USB convertor also getting with with this case cover ?

Good video, buddy. Thanks for the information.

Excellent clear explanation. thank you.

Hello thanks for the video. Is there a way of daisy chaining two (or more) 2.5 inch HDs together as an external HD?

This is a good Video for people who dont know how to do this. Thumbs up from me👍👍

Babbling Boolean, creating the external hard drive went great everything show on line ready to use. not quite sure how to write and read on it. can you please explain?

I did this, when I plug in the external hdd and turn it on I get an error message saying the usb-device doesn't get recognized. The drive still worked before I replaced it with an ssd last week. Is it a problem that the drive still has the old Windows on it? Any idea how to fix this?

very informatively clear video

please also post a video for "how to detach INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM DESKTOP" to retrieve its data & use it on laptop ??

Cool video with good information.

I can't find hardwares for my fostex FD4 digital mixer recorder,it's an old equipment,my Iomega jaz stops working.I saw in the manual I can install 2.5" ide hd inside,but hard to find the hardwares,like mounting parts,50 pin sockets,etc.,help is greatly appreciated.

The differentiation between 2.5 &3.5 was very good.

Thank you that was super helpful.

What about overheating problems with these enclosures, how serious are they? Is there a way to avoid those problems, maybe to look for specific type of enclosure (with a fan or something) or something else? What do you think about those USB to IDE / SATA 2,5" / 3,5" (universal) kits? Are they better then these external hdd enclosures or not? Thank you!

hey, I'm basically trying to recover old data from my old Toshiba satellite pro L650, it says it is a eSATA drive, does that mean its the same as a SATA? Do I need to buy a special adaptor or can I still use a SATA adapter?

Excellent Explanation

Formatting doesn't have much to do with the speed of your pc (the i7 you mention), it has more to do with the disk write speed and the connector speed. As you have a USB 2 connector, your speed is limited quite a lot, you'd be better of with USB 3

Thanks!!!! Formating first one now. Great how to video. $6 For and 500 gb external HD.

Dude the time it takes to format a disk doesn't depend on if you have 10 Xeon CPUs with 1tb of RAM, it just depends on the hard disk speed

Fantastic video! Thanks!

What do I need to do,to make a 1tb hard drive into an external one for the Xbox that I use now? And can I swap a 500g to a 1tb or does that need formatted?i don't have a PC.

Great Vid thanks for info now i can reuse my sata hardrive

Does it make any noise when it work .. because l have this problem with my case . thank you .

Always remember to at least get a USB 3.0 enclosure if you want your drive to be faster you must also connect it to a 3.0 port on your computer though

hey, thanks buddy, u explain very well until the classification of SATA (new ! from desktop) & IDE (old ! from laptop) in 2.5 & 3.5 Sizes. now , what should I do if I don't have the cases & how can I connect my OLD DESKTOP HARD DRIVE to my LAPTOP ? Do I need a compatible cable & a power adapter ?? Will my laptop be able to accomodate my old internal hard disk with all my data ?? PLEASE , Boolean, DO REPLY. & THANKS AGAIN, you're doing a good job.

I have a tronsmart streaming Bob with a sata cable,What can i hook it up to?

I have IDE 3.5 inch type hard drive, but the enclosure have the power supply port. i did not understand the function of it, what is the need of it?

Hello question, I have dell xps 8500 . it has ssd 32gb and 2tb hd. I know the ssd is to boost the booting. does it mean the boot occurred on the ssd or the hd?does windows in install on the ssd or hd?thanks

Im upgrading my laptop with an SSD, and I wanna use my 750GB 2.5 in HDD with this method, do I need to format it?

Thanks! Now i have a place where to save my movies!

how many volts of power it requires ? and what kind of adapter ?

I agree with this. I still don't get why people still buy pre-made external hard drives where some of them are proprietary and are not SATA compatible hence you can't move the drive to another enclosure once some of the parts gives up.

How can i know that the HD adapter is compatible with the Hard drive(HD)

Great informative video but in your video you do not mention if someone has an external hdd and has an operating system already on that external hdd and how to boot into either operating system, the one in your pc or laptop.

Great information!

".. this computer's really fast .." Though it took so long to load the 'Computer -> Manage' that you had to skip it

Thank you! I'm gonna be making external hard drives for money :)

Mine doesnt show up in disk management how to fix? u talked about it for a sec but didnt say how to fix it

I don't know why but i prefer the 2.5" obe, it's more compact !

Can I use my new Seagate DB3.4 HDD SATA250GB??? It doesnt have any partitions.

sir what was the name for outer body of hard-disks

This is an awesome video! thank you sooo much!

Thank you!

Thxs man great vid

Will it work with 2 TB WD HDD ? Its Sata. And can you please link me to the case which supports it?

can you hook up a tower to a lap top I want to burn cd's for music ?

I have internal hard drive of 250 gb + OS with 4 partitions. If I convert that to an external drive all 4 partitions along with folders in it will be there??? because in many videos I can see only one drive is available when we convert internal to an external..?? Some one please help!!! 

Would a 3.5 HD using this method work on a PS4 or xbox one?

Good video... Good explanation! Ur voice isn't too fast lol. But for the 3.5 desktop one you really need a case??. I have a single usb to sata cable. It even has 2 usb connectors but it doesnt work :(... Help?

Where do i buy the converter case for 3.5?

awesome teaching 👏👏👏😊👌🖒

Youre a good teacher :) thanx by the way

I might buy this thing, but do i have to take a thunderbolt plugin?

sata power is the larger one of the 2, the smaller one is the data btw.

Working!!! Thanks a lot.......

Thanks bruda!

well explained.

helo babbling boolean ,can you tell me ,where i must buy the case for IDE ,plz tell me what website selling the case

Where did you get IDE ?? Product link Pls ..

Will it also support on desktop? It will need a driver after installation in case? it will work like a external hard disk when plugged into the computer, like other external hard disk do? will it work like a USB to any computer?

THANKS

Came here to see how to make my 3.5 become an external drive, accidentally found out that a block i found a long time ago is actually a 2.5 external hard drive. Time to look for it and find out what's on it

Can I use this with Raspberry pi3?

You can also open up an old external hard drive and switch it out for a bigger one I recently removed a 100gb drive and put in a 750 GB Drive

Thanks 👍

is it necessary to format it? my computer doesn't work anymore so i want to make use of its internal hard drive because i have a lot of important files there.

If I wanted to use the 2.5 hard drive as an external all I have to do is reformat?

Can post the link to buy it?

Thanks man great way to save some cash.

What are the speeds on it when u use it externally compared to internally? Is there any drops?

i have put together a 2.5 sata external hard drive but it will not show up on my computer what do i do? Please

thanks a lot

Can you get a bluetooth external hard drive ? If so where can i buy it ? Because I'm trying to burn cd's because i forgot my computer password. So I'm trying to use my android with a external cd burner to burn cd's ????

thanku soo much....

Would you say it would be more reliable if I used a new hard drive vs. a external hard drive found on Amazon?

Thanks guy

Can you combine both into one…. I have a bunch of both

Hello Babbling Boolean! What type of camera you used to record your tutorials? I like the video quality. Would you recommend it or is there another one you would recommend?

After I retrieve all the stuff on my HD, how do I keep just my pictures. I don't care about anything else, I have a new 'puter, just want my pics saved on the old HD. I will be making my old 500G HD a new external HD. I have Windows 10, it sucks but. Thanx...

will my old files still be there??

What exactly did you build?

Nice video