There are some information’s stored in an old hard disk drive which will still be relevant to you but unfortunately, it’s not easy to connect a drive to your PC. The question should be, what then happens to all those relevant information stored in that drive? Does it mean there isn’t a way out to retrieve those vital information’s? The answer is an emphatic NO there is indeed a practical way you can connect your hard drive to your computer and recover that useful information stored in it, so in this Article, we will look at various ways to do that.
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How To Get Data Off A Hard Drive.
Looking at it on a normal ground, getting your information off an old hard disk is not that cumbersome to do, it is very easy. Once the device has been disconnected from its original PC and kept free from knocks, the data should be retrieved with relative ease. Now let’s look at various options to connect an old hard disk drive into your computer.
Connect Using Special USB Adapter
This is the simplest way to do that, which is to connect your old hard disk drive to your computer using USB, we noticed that this always come with connections for SATA and IDE/PATA drives.
Hard disk drive recently has SATA connection which happens to be a small shaped connector and a tin flat cable. You can power this drive using a Molex four-pin connector or a wider connector. IDE/PATA drives rely on a much wider ribbon cable connector, along with a Molex connector.
If peradventure you have an old IDE/PATA disk drive, connect the IDE/PATA adapter port to the drive, then the Molex plug to the mains adapter. At this point, you can now connect the adapter to the PC using USB after that, Switch it on.
Hack An External Hard Disk Drive
The hard disk drive with a USB connection basically contains the same functionality as a SATA-to-USB Cable Adapter and can be hacked to accept a different SATA HDD.
Note: Opening the drive up can invalidate the device’s warranty.
The external hard disk drive has a small circuit board with SATA Connectors to dock the drive, and an enclosure. You can swap it using your old hard disk drive by opening the enclosure and removing securing screws the existing drive.
When everything is connected, connect the hard drive to your PC, power it up and start retrieving information. Mind you, don’t forget to replace the original house disk drive into the external drive immediately you finish.
Mount A Hard Disk Drive Into An External Enclosure.
If you are planning to be accessing the hard disk drive regularly, it will be of utmost important to buy an external HDD enclosure, and install your disk drive in this. This is indeed a simpler step to hacking your existing external HDD. The only difference it has is that the enclosure should ship with some instructions on how to install the driver. Immediately you have installed the hard disk drive in the new enclosure, connect it to your PC through USB. Power it up and start retrieving your data
