How to Build an External Hard Drive

Thanks guy

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.

The Laptop Is So Old That She Uses IDE Lol Today we Use SATA I Feal Old

Didn't build a damn thing

Does it work on Xbox one?

What exactly did you build?

The subject wording on this video is totally wrong.. it should be.. How to put drives into external cases... You are not BUILDING anything!!!

Hi is there any other way to access the 3.5 hard drive without the enclosure, like example, I want to connect it to my laptop just to copy files in it, but without enclosure. Hope you reply, thanks.

Your video is so white it should go snowboarding.

Good explanation but I just found this video so it is a little out dated. But good job.

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

Thank you!

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...

Can I use it for a ps4

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 order that casing?

Wow dude, exactly what part did you "build"? lol. Title is very misleading. Should be "How to BUY an External Hard Drive". Which is rather redundant considering it can only be connected one way lol. It's literally impossible to mess it up lol. 9 minutes to tell people to go to the Future shop and buy an external casing hard drive is a clear indication you're really only in this for the views($). I have no choice but to dislike, good luck to you sir.

Off topic hard drives are the worst things to make portable
they are extremely sensitive so if you drop it once it's done

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

Plz sir, give IDE hard disk case buy link provid plz 🔥❤️🔥❤️

Thanks bruda!

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

Thank you that was super helpful.

Both are IDE. It's an acronym for Integrated Drive Electronics. The older one is a PATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment) drive. By the way, you're pronouncing SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) wrong. The first A in SATA and PATA are long by convention.

Excellent clear explanation. thank you.

i meant to buy a 2TB external ready-made hard drive and my dumbass that couldn't read bought the case smh

Thanks 👍

it is not "How to Build an External Hard Drive", it is how to install a harddrive into an External Hard Drive

Hi. I just found your video. I got a question. Can I use my external hard drive without using a power cord? If so, how? Thank you

Lol a i7 7 years ago

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

How to build/make an external drive.... Translation=How to buy this product and follow the instructions. Am I asking too much when I ask for a "how to build/make" video to actually have some building/making..... Not assembling. Terminology matters!

very informatively clear video

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

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 ????

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.

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?

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

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?

Too much bla bla bla

Hey i made a backup witch is named Infinity on a disk. Welp my pc was gone so i needed to use it. (It has antivirus so when u install it but you virused your computer and is gone it already has the advanced antivirus for worms and advanced viruses and also the basic ones. Also if you have multiple viruses the antivirus will kill one by one and export outo your computer so your safe. (If the computer is still virused it means that is still processing the kill if the kill goes in error it will restart the antivirus and then repair the error and then kill the virus so don't worry if your computer will reboot or shutdown the anti virus is still killing the virus)

Any good 3.5 sata case?

pls after building the drive don't show pls what can i do

Says how to build but u just bought it and showed us

I’m building a hard drive business from scratch and the internet isn’t your friend when it comes to entrepreneurship and details...

Will it work properly or slower than external hard drives..??

3.5".

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

Perfect thank you

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