Turn an Old Hard Drive into an External Hard Drive
Odds are you have spare hard drives lying around from old computers. Instead of tossing them out or letting them collect dust, you can easily turn them into DIY external hard drives and use them to backup your important files. Basically all you have to do is pick up a cheap hard drive enclosure, stuff the old drive inside, and connect it to your computer.
- More details about this project
- Hide a hard drive in a power strip
- Recover dead hard drive data
February 14th, 2009
what kind of a hack is this?
August 28th, 2009
Holy Sh!t i never new you could do that!!! i went and bought a terabyte external drive. instead of just using my old 40gig.
August 28th, 2009
it’s a subtle hack perpetrated by the manufacturers of hard drive enclosures on us… Making the IDE->USB controller that lives inside these enclosures – preferably out of an old TV remote or whatever – now that would be interesting