I am looking for a good 2.5" hard drive enclosure which is compact, durable and has e-sata has usb3 connectivity.
Hard is much more sunny than it is good, imo
what is the difference? im trying to recover pictures from my hard drive how do i do this?
my laptop is broken my pictures are still in the harddrive. i just want to extract them to another computer. What im asking is what the differance is or are they the same
A caddy allows you to easily swap hard drives.
An enclosure is for just one hard drive. Changing to another hard drive means taking it apart.
for a 3.5 hdd
Yep. I have one called an IDE/SATA to USB Adapter (google "BT-300 topmicrousa"). It works wonders and it doesn’t require a AC Adapter. Just plug it in and go. It works for all hard drive sizes, IDE or SATA so you’re good :).
Best of luck.
Hard drive crashed. Wanted to recover a few files via a USB enclosure. Hooked it up and after getting past red tape of Admin rights and such, none of my files are there. Under music it’s only showing the sample music that came on the computer and under the documents tab it’s empty. The dates by all these files, saying when they were last used/modified match the date of the crash so I’d assume my files should be there somewhere. Right?
It was suggested to me to use and IDE connector, but a. this is a laptop not a desktop and b. I don’t really have the time to order the right things for that if I have to order it from the web because I have to send the busted hard drive back to HP by Thurs.
Also, I’m not sure but I’m wondering if the problem could be that the crashed HD is from a computer that is two years newer and had a different version of Windows. But I really don’t see how that would matter since the sample music/pictures are still showing up.
Can anyone help me?
I had an HP laptop hard drive that went bad too. I was able to get the info back, for free.
1st I would put the HD back in the laptop and try to find the files with an Ubuntu Live CD. A live CD will boot up your computer and run it independently of your HD. You can then transfer the info to a USB drive - here is a how to:
http://www.myfixlog.com/fix.php?fid=17
2nd - if that didnt work you can install a free program called PhotoRec inside Ubuntu. PhotoRec will scan your HD for files. If the files are there, PhotoRec will get them back. Here is a how-to:
http://www.myfixlog.com/fix.php?fid=19
You can also run PhotoRec in Windows. If you would like to put the HD in the USB enclosure and use PhotoRec in windows just use these instructions: (the how-to is for recovering photos from camera memory cards, but will recover other files as well)
http://www.myfixlog.com/fix.php?fid=20
One observation:
The used/modified date of the sample music is the date that the OS was installed. This files are created on installation. Because of this I would venture to guess that you tried to recover your drive to factory settings using the boot-up options (ie format and reinstall Windows from the image on the HD recovery partition). Or, best case, you are looking at the wrong drive.
If you did try to recover, use Photo Rec. It can recover from formated drives.
I connected it to my xbox 360 sata drive throught a sata to usb drive but it will not show up on device manager. Is there some thing I need to do to allow the computer to see it?
if you want it to act like a pc hard drive you need to format it because it is not a ntsc or fat32
If you want to just view your files you need viewer to view the fatx files
get one here http://www.xboxscene.com/tools/tools.php?page=harddrive
I have a 3.5" IDE hard drive enclosure (USB), and I know normal IDE cables can connect 2 drives to one IDE controller slot on a motherboard. Is it possible to do the same with the controller card in my enclosure, by swapping out the tiny little cable with a normal one?
You can try, but it may not have enough power to run both and would actually be harmful to the drives in the end.
I’ve got a run of the mill disk enclosure that connects to my PC via USB, and has its own AC power adapter. In the interest of conservation, I’d like to replace this enclosure with one that gets all its power from my PC, so that when it goes into standby or shuts down, the external drive will also. I recognize that a standard USB connection doesn’t provide sufficient power; would it require a dual-USB connection? Doesn Firewire provide more power?
it has to be a 2.5 inch enclosure with a laptop hardrive(2.5inch)
The original question:
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Help with links and detailed explanation.
Try buying external usb enclosure on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26field-keywords%3Dexternal%2busb%2benclosure%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Dcomputers&tag=digitsy-post-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
I recommend USB 2.0 External 2.5 IDE HDD Enclosure Case Blue For Laptop, for 7 new from $2.95
You can get it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FNBYKW?ie=UTF8&tag=digitsy-post-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000FNBYKW
or it just downgrade to 5400 rpm?
or worse, not working at all?
If you have USB 2.0, you’ll get very good speeds.
Does the drive that goes in it need to be the same power or rpm and GB as the internal hard drive, so as to run correctly?
Is it ok if the external is IDE and the internal is SATA?
Thanks.
makes no difference. Plug it in and use it.