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Internal Drive as an External

ghking

ghking

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Hello
I know this is probably a ridiculous question but I have like 5 old internal hard drives laying around and i was wondering if there was any sort of way to make them into external drives. Like solder a USB cable to em.
 
ghking said:
Hello
I know this is probably a ridiculous question but I have like 5 old internal hard drives laying around and i was wondering if there was any sort of way to make them into external drives. Like solder a USB cable to em.
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Buy an external case, USB or Firewire (or both). The drives are probably IDE, so make sure the case matches. Check OWC or NewEgg - there are many choices.
 
Homemade, no, but cases and adapters are cheap, you should be able to get a USB IDE adapter for $20.
 
true true. didnt see them that cheap when i looked so thanks for the link ill look into it
thanks
 
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