How Do You Convert An Internal Hard Drive Into An External Harddrive?
A lot of people don’t know that an external harddrive is almost identical to the one inside your computer. The only difference is that it’s in a cheap little box known as an “external enclosure”. If you’re upgrading harddrives in your laptop or desktop, you can pull out the old hard drive and convert it into an external harddrive by following these steps. Take the harddrive out of the computer. Take notice of the connection side of it – you’re going to need to buy the appropriate enclosure. The most common types of connections are IDE (pictured here) and SATA. Buy the external harddrive enclosure that matches the connection type. Once you’ve got the external harddrive enclosure, take it out of the package. If it isn’t already disassembled, you should carefully do that now. It typically consists of the enclosure case, interface (the computer chip looking thing), a cable, and sometimes heat sinks. If the enclosure for your external harddrive included heat sinks, screw them into the hardd
