Convert Internal Hard Drive To External - Comments

Many companies offer modile ide boxes for CD, HD, DVD. They use usb and/or firewire. The have size for laptop drives and full size drives. I have a 300 gb in a BlueEye Mobile HDD box. I costs around 50$ CAN. -- Ben

I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite 2435-S255 bought 3 years ago. This is frequently shutting down, If I play windows media player/Real player etc. for last 4 months. Some times it even shuts down within 5 minutes of start, without starting any applications.
One expert have cleaned the dust in ventilation fans under the laptop. It worked about 30 days well. Then it started shutting down again. Sometimes, I could surf internet about 2 hours. The (I think fan) sound increases before it shuts down. I cannot write/Play CD's. The battery works well. I was kind of confusion, it is a software or Hardware problem? Experts, Please send me your thoughts, experiences/solutions on this problem.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like an overheating problem to me.

Aloha! I just wanted to thank You for the great info about drive conversion from ext. to int. I followed the link to Addonics and got myself the appropriate hardware. Unfortunately I am so delivered to a few different computer systems with a variety of OS. Next Life I stay in a cave in Tibet... ;-) Thanks again, Wolfgang Exel Watson

Many thanks to you for this posting. This has saved me several hunderd dollars. Again, thank you! I knew there had to be a way to convert these old HDD's.

Hi. I have 250GB Maxtor IDE 7200RPM HD. I bought external HD converter kit but when I plug it to my laptop it shows error in installing it. I m using XP home. Kindly suggest me wht to do.

EDITOR'S NOTE: You could start by telling me what kind of error you're getting...

hey guys i need help. i have a sony sz series's internal hard drive but i am unable to convert it into external drive because of its pin system. can any one help me in this case?

EDITOR'S NOTE: You didn't give us much to go on... Is it a standard IDE drive, or something else? Why are the pins causing trouble?

I have a 200GB hard drive that has tons of data on it, can I enclose it without reformatting?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, there is no need to reformat the drive.

hi, I have removed the hard drive from my old computer and now have it connected to my new Windows XP PC through an external USB box. I changed the jumper settings on the old drive to slave and the drive is showing in Device Manager/Disk Management but not in My Computer. There is no option to initialise, format or partion the drive showing in Disk Management.. any ideas?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I think that external USB drives should be set to Master. Give that a try...

i tried the hard in the external box with the jumper settings set to master to start with, i have also tried installing the HDD internally (with jumper settings to slave) but still the same result - not showing in My Computer and showing in Disk Management but with no option to explore, initialise, format or partition.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I'd suspect a hardware problem with the drive. Does it work alone, as a master drive?

yeah, works fine. had no problems with it at all.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Okay, them I'm stumped... anyone have a suggestion?