I have 3 old drives I want to get data off, about 100 gigs total or so, music and pictures, nothing special.



I had purchased this thing that you were supposed to be able to plug the drive into and it has a USB on the other end, but alas it did not work, it was cheap so I probably got what I paid for and I never bothered to return it.



Is there a easy method or should I just put these drives into thier old computers and hook my portable hard drive to and transfer the files that way?



I dont want to plug these drives into my current computers- thats what im trying to avoid, I want all this on my back up portable drive.

 

That would be my best guess. Hopefully someone with more "cutting-edge" knowledge of PC hardware will chime in.

 

my old computer wont boot up right now, dont know i messed up the slave settings or what, it says invalid system disk, replace disk and try again

 

I said F it and put the old drive in the new computer and set it to slave- everything came right up.

Dont know why I did not try that years ago, lol

 

i just us a little portable hard drive enclosure, then usb as long as the drive is still good.

 

i need to get one of those for future crap, can you put laptop drives in them?

 

I have one for each, there aren't any that will do both in one enclosure as far as i know.

 

rob i dont know if you have microcenter over there but its $20 for an adapter that lets you plug in any hdd, notebook, desktop, sata. everything...

 

I have them here, I also got one of those things and it did not work

 

Get a small HD enclosure like phins said and just use the usb plug in, transfer all your crap to your other external HD then bam, you're set. After that you can format the HD in the new enclosure and valla! Its a new external HD!



You can buy the enclosures online or most computer stores.