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can i remove my old internal hard drive and make it an external one and still....

dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
edited October 2007 in Technical Stuff and Help
keep all the files that are on it?????????

I have a new PC and i want to take the hard drive out of my old one... put it in one of those casings and then attach it to my new pc as an external hard drive for backing up...


but i have 30-40gb of music files on the old one that i simply cant be bothered to put onto CD's to transfer over... so if i remove the internal and plug it in to the new one will it still have my old files on it??????

this would save me hours of hassle and work that i simply cant face doing!

cheers
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    yes you can, but it involves effort and thinking.

    You can buy an internal hd enclosure for about €50, or a 250gig external hard drive for €75.

    I vote buy an external drive, plug it in to the old pc and copy the files. Then just plug it in to yer new pc.

    Its always handy to have yer old pc intact just incase the new one explodes or something.
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jennytree wrote:
    yes you can, but it involves effort and thinking.

    You can buy an internal hd enclosure for about €50, or a 250gig external hard drive for €75.

    I vote buy an external drive, plug it in to the old pc and copy the files. Then just plug it in to yer new pc.

    Its always handy to have yer old pc intact just incase the new one explodes or something.

    i might have to do this.... i cant be arsed taking out the old one anyway.. i just thought if it kept all the files then it would save me loads of money.. i can get a 3.5" enclosure for £10 delivered.. whereas an external hard drive is about £50!.

    thats £40 i could spend on potatoes shaped like genitals
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    dunkman wrote:
    i might have to do this.... i cant be arsed taking out the old one anyway.. i just thought if it kept all the files then it would save me loads of money.. i can get a 3.5" enclosure for £10 delivered.. whereas an external hard drive is about £50!.

    thats £40 i could spend on potatoes shaped like genitals

    hurrah! problem solved! *potato high-five for meee*
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jennytree wrote:
    hurrah! problem solved! *potato high-five for meee*


    well i've just bought an external casing for it...

    i'll probably fuck it up but it was only £10... but all i want is my 30gigs of music off.. so if i manage to take the old one out and put it into this casing will it then 'keep' the files from the old machine and allow me to drag them off onto my new machine?

    i thought about keeping it for a spare but the thing was getting knackered... something wrong with the monitor or grpahics.. and the there was no sound coming from it but there was through headphones (well in one ear)

    i've read stuff about anti-static guff.. i just thought i could unscrew the mofo.. pop it into this case and plug it in.. do i need some form of protective clothing and a £90 screwdriver that can drill through diamonds and toffee?
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    dunkman wrote:
    well i've just bought an external casing for it...

    i'll probably fuck it up but it was only £10... but all i want is my 30gigs of music off.. so if i manage to take the old one out and put it into this casing will it then 'keep' the files from the old machine and allow me to drag them off onto my new machine?

    i thought about keeping it for a spare but the thing was getting knackered... something wrong with the monitor or grpahics.. and the there was no sound coming from it but there was through headphones (well in one ear)

    i've read stuff about anti-static guff.. i just thought i could unscrew the mofo.. pop it into this case and plug it in.. do i need some form of protective clothing and a £90 screwdriver that can drill through diamonds and toffee?

    ye cheapskate :p

    ye'd actually wanna be careful with the static thing - it can burn out the circuit boards! But if you just put yer hand on a radiator (or something else metal) it should get rid of that for ye.

    Umm... a few other things (courtesy of my darling nerd of a boyfriend)


    open external case, if there's a drive currently in there, remove it and examine the jumper arrangement - should say on the sticker on front of drive what the arrangement means (master/slave/cable select)

    check front of drive you're putting in, set jumpers to whatever setting the other drive was set to - if there was no other drive, try cable select, then slave, then master

    insert data cable and power cable

    close case (if ye really want), plug in - happy days


    does this a apply if ye buy a case for the purpose of sticking an internal drive into it?

    not all of it

    set the jumpers to cable select

    then insert drive

    try it

    if it ain't working, try set jumpers to slave, failing that, master

    and if none of that works...just take off the jumper and hope for the best

    http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=326875 - so I can buy one of these, stick in the drive (any drive??), sort out the jumpers and fire ahead??

    not any drive

    has to be a 3.5" IDE drive

    oh, will take a SATA drive too apparently

    but yea, any normal internal PC drive

    not a laptop drive, they little

    2.5" is laptop ones

    well yea, the only trouble you may encounter with external cases is just your jumper configuration

    and can only really be 1 of 3 formations
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    fucking easy :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    I agree with Jennytree. Buy an external you old skinflint ;)
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    nuffingman wrote:
    I agree with Jennytree. Buy an external you old skinflint ;)


    nahhh.. i like a challenge. :p

    if it goes wrong though i'm going to batter a neighbourhoodwatch person to death using a mussel shell
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    done and dusted this morning in under 30mins... now i have 36GB of my music back.. :):):)


    thanks for help everyone... specially Jennington, who will receive a picture of me in a string vest whilst cooking some sausages ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Boom The CatBoom The Cat Posts: 482
    If you get one big (or several smaller) USB flash/pen drive(s) you could just copy them onto them and copy back as and when you wish.

    EDIT: Oh okay, problem solved. :)
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