Turn an Old Laptop Hard Drive into an External Hard Drive
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Do you have an old laptop hard drive that's just sitting around collecting dust? Have you ever wanted an external hard drive for backing up important files or just to be able to take your files with you without having to lug around your entire computer? Turning your old laptop hard drive into an external hard drive is super easy to do and in this video I not only show you how to turn an old hard drive into an external drive but also how to remove the partitions on your old drive using DISKPART, clean all the old files off it and initialize and format it giving you a "brand new" external hard drive.
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-- Time Stamps --
0:00 - Video Intro
0:27 - Video Background
1:56 - Part 1: Stuff you need
3:15 - Part 2 Beginning
4:04 - My Old Drive has Multiple Partitions on it?
5:28 - Deleting Drive Partitions Using Disk Management
8:48 - Deleting Drive Partitions Using DISKPART
10:54 - Initialize/Format the drive (create new simple volume)
12:35 - Video conclusion, Like & Subscribe :)
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dude instead of deleting the partitions individually, u could have just opened diskpart selected disk 3 and cleaned the entire disk. then you could have created the partition way more easily. otherwise, great video :)
I actually learned about the "clean" command shortly after posting this video. You're right it is much easier to be able to remove all the partitions simultaneously if that's what you're wanting to do... which is what I wanted to do in this video. I've pinned your comment so hopefully people will see our conversation here and learn that rather than selecting and deleting each partition individually if they want to remove them all simultaneously they can simply select their disk and then type "clean" and hit enter and be done.
Hey man, thanks for the reply, I recently started watching your videos, And its pretty good, also I think this was the first time I've ever commented on a video on youtube
Thanks !!
@@deletedelete2016 I would use diskpart like I show in the video. Rather than doing like I did in the video and typing delete partition override you can instead select the disk you want and then just type clean and it will remove all the partitions on the drive simultaneously.
@@Maraksot78 My apologies, already saw the whole video, I was at work doing half job haha so I couldn't see the video completely. Gonna make the exact same thing using diskpart in a few hours because I made a huge mistake: full hard drive format from Disk Management :(
Should I let it run until is done or pull the hard drive off like a real man? Haha
This worked like a charm! Got rid of those recovery partitions and now have a new storage drive. I would like to add that you can use a spare sata and power cable on your desktop to perform these tasks. That is what I did. Thank you very much for keeping the steps simple to follow.
Before this guy, too many of my old harddrives went in the trash. Since, I've repurposed three drives, and I couldn't be more grateful!
Just want to say thankyou for adding the Canadian Amazon link I've never seen any other TH-camr think about the canadian viewers .
I was so anxious doing this but i got through every step with you. Thank you. Great Video.
very straight forwards and almost exactly what I needed. I ended up doing DISKPART a bit different by using the clean function on the entire thing since I didn't need to worry about any files on it. But overall super glad to have such a straightforwards and well explained tutorial available
Can the eclosure and its USB cable be used a s substitute to the USB to SATA cable for the cloning phase?
QUESTION: Everything went perfect to right to the end. Then my drive didn't open up when it finished formatting like yours did. I tried to right click on the drive to open it, and the "Open" option was not high lighted so I could click on it. What do I need to do now?
Thank you for sharing this tutorial! I can now use my old laptop hardrive as external drive. Thank you so much!
Hello. If I buy a new ssd for my laptop and make windows boot from there after formatting my laptop should I create a new partition or just install windows on the ssd and use it? Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video! The old hard drive from my broken old netbook was very useful now and I was able to make this into a new one. 💖
I have an OLD laptop that I am attempting to salvage the hard drive from. It seems to have 48 pin. 44 and then 4. Any idea what I should be using for an adapter? Am I out of luck?
Thank you! I was able to do all this and have a „new” external drive. The instruction were all very useful.
will this work for a 2.5 inch sshd laptop drive so I can use on my mac? Will the usb 3.0 work on a usb port that's not for usb 3.0?
Thanks man, been using my old laptop hdd without being formatted coz I thought formatting it would render it useless but I appreciate a video this detailed in all the steps necessary and now I use the hdd as a single partition external good for just storing everything I need, thank u
Thanks for this, i am going to go and grab everything out of my old laptops!! Hella Smart
hi!! I need help. I took out my hard drive from my old laptop but a plastic piece is attached to/around the pins! making it impossible to attach the IDE connector I bought... what should I do?
would this work if I wanted to make it into an external hard drive for a gaming console like the ps4 or box one?
I have a HD case that is USB to Mini USB. Is that going to cause any issues? (Using the HD to store games only)
Will this work with taking out a Windows hd and swapping it out as an external for Chromebook. I know it's basically Linux, but have heard about some differences that have to be considered while 'crossing' anything with Win10--???
Thanks, after making this external drive can it be made into the boot drive for the PC and in fact the 1 & only hard drive on the PC?
Hey I've done this a few times swapping HDD with sdd. And this time I'm trying to use my dad's old external Toshiba satellite in a 2.5 sata3 3.0 caddy. But there might be a firmware because I can't get the program files to work. After I gave it let.ission it turned color from grey but it said some strange code Everytime I tried to give chest full access. Help please
I having problems with windows security can"t delete =OS secure & access denied =user password protected ect. I did see a video where a guy changed (environment) do you know anything to fix this ?
I did it like in the video and i would just like to ask if its okay not having the eject option on the drive?
do you have a video how to turn a pc sata hard drive as an external hard drive for pc? i have an extra seagate barracuda 500 gb (ST500DM002) SATA, and I am using a desktop. thank you.
I like to keep some data on old la[top HD but want to delete windows, so when I plug into another laptop, Windows won't interfere with new laptop. Can I do that? If yes, how? Reason I want to keep old data is I have some imp files, some of them like on excel, words like that which don't recognise in new laptop even I install new office. Don't know reason. Also can not open with Open Office either. Any solution
Thanks in advance.
Question:- After doing this... Can i again install windows in my laptop by any flash drive?
a good intro would be
"someone at work ate my sandwich"
or
"my best friend and myyy sister ..."
At the last step when i do the new volume... My partition gets stuck on formatting... Could you please tell me how i can solve that
thanks for the help. I am going to do this next week when I get the parts . hope it goes this easy for me
Was terrified while doing this but ended up working fine. Thank you very much for the tutorial!
Very happy the video helped you. Enjoy your external drive. :)
Hi sir,
I was trying to install windows 8 on a machine that had windows 7 in the process by mistake I formatted the partition with the old windows on. Now I can’t go on to install the w8 os, it says that it cannot find the os. Do you know the way out of it? Could you please help me out? Thanks a lot.
You got my like at the "important data" joke. +5 comedic prowess to you sir.
I have an old laptop hard drive and put it in the encloser. nothing popped up and the light on the encloser is blinking. what do I do?
Hi. I have just replaced an internal 3TB drive with a SSD. Just tried to used a Sata Adaptor but it does not register when connected with USB. You said the Sata adaptor is suitable for small powered SSD ( laptop ) so I am assuming the problem is a lack of power for the 3TB. How can I resolve this problem? I just want to clean and format the drive before selling. I am not an expert - DIY. Thank you.
Could someone help me, so I just bought an enclosure, but when I place the hard drive inside and tried the enclosure the drive is not detectrd
I can not eject correctly the HDD form my laptop? It appears that it’s being used, even when everything is already closed. What I did wrong?
hello sir. i would like to know how your HDD is going well or not, today. but before, let me tell you something first.
2 year ago i found out about that sata to USB 3 Super-speed. my broken laptop has 2 HDD (toshiba 750gb and WD 1TB).
short story the 750gb toshiba is dead due to click of death along with all of my important data in it after 2 year of using with usb to sata cable. the 1tb one is still sitting on my old stuff stored safely.
so before i'm going to use another WD 1TB as external drive like i use on toshiba 750gb, i would like to know your hdd condition today. have you facing some errors, unresponsive, something like that. or is it even not working anymore?
Excellent video! Love the step-by-step approach (no shortcuts).
Would it be safe to use this cleaned out external drive for my ps4?
Thanks for the assist i was lost in the sauce on that one
I have a silver adhesive on my hard drive. Should I try to remove it?
Wow! Thank you so much for this tutorial. My old Lenovo 500gb hard drive is now ready 😆. I never thought my broken laptop can still be of use.
Hey thank you for this tutorial, I have two questions, do you need to format the old drive at all? Can I not just leave it as it is? And also will my old drive from a pc work as external memory on my new mac? Thank you!!
No you don't need to format the drive if you don't want to. You can keep all the files there. I just did it in this video because I had already backed all my data up and didn't need to keep it on the drive any more. As for using it with a Mac... I think it'll work. Don't have any experience with that but I know I've transferred files like .jpg's from a PC to my Father in-laws Mac and vise versa using a USB flash drive so I would assume connecting a PC hard drive to a Mac via USB will also work.
I've accidentally deleted some important files through this process. Is there any possible way I could retrieve those files? Please help.
Thank you so much! This video guided me through the process easily.
I just played your video now.. 4years after 😄 but I just want to say thank you!! You solved my problem with my old hdd as back up ❤️❤️❤️❤️
thank you for the video sir but in my pc its showing that disk 1 unknown not initialized plz help me sir
Thanks for your video. My old laptop stopped working, the power button worked in the morning but later did not for my mother. I didn't really want to get rid of it but what to do with it? Now to see what else I can figure out.......
What a legend. This video was exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!
from what I can understand, you can just use it as is with out deleting the particians, or is this prosses needed for the drive to act as an external? I dont really see the reason to remove the alocated areas unless there is a reason
You are correct. You don't need to remove the partitions if you don't want to. If you don't delete anything from the drive then you can still access all your files as they were on your computer before you removed the drive. All the file structure from before will remain in tact. In this video I just wanted to clear this drive off completely and start fresh so I showed how to do that.
My old samsung hdd 640gb doesn't appear but it looks like it's running since I can feel the vibration of the disk spinning inside
I want to recover my files from my old Acer all in one PC . But it shows PQSERVICE and 15GB instead of the full 2TB data. Where it all gone?
Why do you assume we want to reformat the external drive? Can we not just use it as is? Thanks.
Wow man! I love you! You saved my 1TB external that I thought will gonna be garbage!
Hi i just wanted to ask if its possible to make it show up as an external drive? As in my pc thinks that it is an internal drive because thats what it was on the laptop i got the hdd from.
thanks
@Maraksot78 ??
can if i used it it make my old laptop faster or no
Your video was extremely helpful! I replaced an old HDD from my laptop and wanted to use it on my desktop as extra storage. Worked like a champ! Oh and by the way I had an extra sata cable so I just hooked it up that way and powered it directly through my power supply. Thanks again!
Glad it helped! :)
if i have a laptop that may have a damaged hard drive, is this a way to check the health of the hard drive? buying the enclosure and connecting to another computer? I cant afford data recovery service and just trying to see how I can salvage the files from the old laptop. Thanks
Yes you can do this to see if you can salvage the files from your old hard drive. All you need to do is pull the drive from your old computer, connect it to an adapter cable or enclosure like I use in the video, plug it into another computer and as long as the hard drive is still working you can access the files on it like you would any other external hard drive.
Hi. Thank for the info and tutorial. I have a question. I have important files on Local Disk. I can extend that and make my primary storage?
If that’s your primary drive then don’t try to tap into that.
I enjoyed your goofy sense of humor and well-paced instructions. Thanks!
Hi! How to delete the windows file without formating the hdd...i tried to right click and delete it...and it say i dont have permission
This is so informative and entertaining as well. Can't wait for my enclosure to arrive and follow these steps!
Thanks for watching and for the kind comment. Best of luck to you creating your own external HDD. :)
Maraksot78 we had the same experience with the senior prom though.... 😂😂
Sorry to hear that man. Lol 😂
Thanks very much for this video. I had removed a 500GB HDD from an old laptop and now I can use it as an external drive. Easy to follow instructions, thanks again.
Great to hear! Enjoy. :)
I have a ps4 hard drive and I want to get all of that data on the ps4 onto a USB so I can use that save data in my ps4 if possible
You made it so simple - worked first time - thanks
You're welcome. Thanks for watching the video and for the kind comment. :)
At first I was not able to delete the partitions on my former Macbook Pro HDD with the right click method on Disk Management, but after that I tried it with diskpart it worked like magic. Thanks to this video I can now use that HDD plus another SSD for my current MacBook Pro which only has a 256GB drive, thank you so much!
you're welcome. Enjoy! :)
My laptops broke can I use the hard drive from my old one to transfer all my music and pictures and everything from my broken one to a new one?
As long as the hard drive in your laptop is still working properly you can remove it and use an adapter cable or enclosure like I use in this video and then do whatever you want with all your old files. :)
This is what intros should be like!! Good video man.
How did you back everything up? When you did the transfer to the new ssd before you installed it into the computer?
thanks for the question, I backed up all my important files from my laptop before removing the old drive. I have a NAS (network attached storage) that I backed everything up to so once that was done I swapped in the new SSD and then installed a fresh copy of windows to the SSD.
Thaks buddy... Working with you is awesome... 😎🤩🤩
Can u connect this to Android devices using otg or a tv
What if i only do the first step. Would the hard drive work??
hi , a question. can we use it as a FAT32 ?
or format it to FAT32?
Any difference if I use a desktop 3.5 mechanical HDD besides the enclosure and cables?
They do make enclosures and cables to use with 3.5" desktop drives too so yah you can do that if you want. The biggest difference with 3.5" drives is they require more power than you can get over USB so they have separate power cables you usually have to plug into a wall outlet. 3.5" drives and their enclosures are also a lot bigger so they're not as portable as the 2.5" drives and enclosures. But yah, it's totally possible to do. :)
Will my old hard drive that is 2 3/4 “ by 3 15/16 for in the hard drive enclosure? It’s a Seagate Momentus 7200.4. Thx
Yes, that'll work just fine
Maraksot78 thank you!!
Thank you! This video guided me through the process easily. :D
Couldn't you delete all partitions by completely wiping the disk while in the computer? When I factory reset my desktop it asked me if I wanted to keep the partitions or not. Just wondering if that would be an easier route.
Yes you can do that. You can also just type in clean in diskpart once you've selected your disk, which I learned after making this video.
Thanks dude. Awesome video and you made it totally easy to do.
OMG so clear and concise with a pace that was ideal for anyone who might be trying to follow. And to pin someone else's comment at the top to clarify "cleaning" the partition - you sir are a gent.
hi sir may i ask so that i can fully understand... is the external hdd for laptop when plug into the desktop will work or not? your answer will be appreciated
Yes, you can use a laptop hard drive in a desktop PC.
@@Maraksot78 thank you
I get a data error ( cyclic redundancy check ) . How to fix this?
Hi , I am new to this. I have a question. There are a lot of data in my old HDD. Do i need to format the HDD before using it as external? Please help.
No you don't need to format it at all. I just show how to do that in this video in case you're wanting to remove everything and have a 'brand new' external drive. You can simply connect it to your computer using a USB adapter or enclosure like I show in this video and you'll be able to access all your files just like you would with any other external hard drive.
Thank you so much! Your video help along and I know what to do when I have a next old hard drive
Great video. Exactly what I needed to know. Thank you
Thank you so much... this is very helping out and it really work well.. Now I able to use my old hard drive to be external hard drive
Your video helped me to decide what to do with my old laptop hard drive. The laptop won't turn on and I still have tons of things I didn't get to back up. thank god I can recover all the stuff. thanks
Thank you so much for your help. Actually i changed my laptop hdd with ssd and i was thinking that what im gonna do with the hdd after installing the ssd then i watched your video and i was like WTH I didn’t know that and now i won’t have to buy an extra external hdd and then i bought ORICO enclosure and worked so amazingly fast. I’m so happy now. Thanks again.
You're very welcome. Thanks so much for checking out the video. Enjoy your "new" external hard drive. :)
Thanks, man. This is exactly what I was looking for!
What is the music in the background and why is it familiar
Just done mine this morning. Really helpful. Thanks, Wayne (England)
You're welcome. Thanks for checking out the video and for the very kind comment. Cheers to you sir. :)
Hey man. Can i back up the data stored in my old hdd before turning it into an external hdd? Thank you verymuch.
In this video I back my data up before removing the old drive but you can back it up before or after. You don't have to format the drive like I do if you don't want to. I wanted to format the drive and clean everything off of it so that's why I show how to do that in the video. Hope this helps.
Do you have to re-format the old harddrive or the stuff thats on it register into a new computer ?:)
no, you don't have to format it. I did in this video because I wanted the drive to be like new, all clean with nothing on it. If you're wanting to keep the files on it you can simply put the drive into an enclosure or connect it to an adapter cable like I show in the video, plug it into another computer and have access to all the files that are on it.
i turned on my computer, but their was a noise ! it turns out my seta cable has come away from my computer, so it was making a vibration noise. do you think their would be any damage to my hard drive ? - worried if the power couldn't get out and it damaged it.
+sebastian langley I'd like to help but I'm having a difficult time understanding what happened. It sounds like you're saying something wasn't plugged in all the way and your hard drive started making a noise? Did you plug it all back in the way it's supposed to be? Is it working Ok now? If so then I think everything is just fine.
Great video I learnt from you how extend the used HDD, Thanks
this has been very helpful!! i thank you good sir, regards all the way from malaysia
Thank you! I have an old Dell that bit the dust leaving me with 1TB drive, I'd already put it into an enclosure but could not figure out how to get rid of the 5 different partitions
You're welcome. I'm glad the video was able to help you out. :)
Thanks so much for this. I am NOT a tech savvy guy. But this walk through made this process easy and i now have an external hard drive for all my stuff. Thanks again.
No problem. Glad the video helped you out. Thanks for watching. :)
Hey Sir, would this same process work with an old desktop hard drive?
+Common Man's Combatives yes, you can turn a 3.5" drive (typical destop drive) into an external drive however they require more power than a 2.5" laptop drive to operate so the USB cable alone doesn't provide enough power. The enclosure for one is of course bigger and then requires a power cable to be plugged into it along with the USB cable. But all the other stuff I show in this video about deleting partitions and formatting the drive works the same.
Maraksot78 Thanks. I ordered the enclosure but I wasn't sure if the partitions part was the same. Thanks again. Now I have two places to store all my important data. 👍
+Common Man's Combatives cool, best of luck to you. Enjoy. :)
You made it very easy. I followed along as you explained the how-tos and paused when needed. I did this for my wife using our Windows laptop so she'd have additional storage for her Chromebook. The one I did for my Mac was easy: I just reformatted it and now it's the Time Machine backup.
Awesome! Happy to hear the video helped you out. Enjoy!
How do we use the same external drive on a mac ?