HDD Transfer

mlbtheshow · 9 Feb 2010 at 13:03

Not sure if this is the place to post, but it falls under HDD questions so ill give it a shot.

Basically I have 2 HDDs from my old computer (that I no longer have) which still have data on... now most of this data is not needed, but I have left hundreds of family photos on them that the misses wants me to get back.

Now I currently have a laptop so is there a cable that allows me to link up the HDDs to the laptop so I can transfer the data and then format them?

If not, what is the best way to do the above?

Cheers

Jamesdavid3 · 9 Feb 2010 at 13:23

best way i can think off is burning the photos to a CD if you have a burner.

Or buying a external USB Hard drive/Pen and just plugging that in then just drag and drop the files you want to save onto that external hard drive then just transfer them that way.

rpstewart · 9 Feb 2010 at 13:44

mlbtheshow said:
Now I currently have a laptop so is there a cable that allows me to link up the HDDs to the laptop so I can transfer the data and then format them?

You can get IDE to USB and SATA to USB cables but I'd go with a full on external caddy since the cables I've seen are self powered and hence only work with 2.5" HDDs. An external caddy will come with an external power supply and all the other gubbins you'd need.

startrek2 · 9 Feb 2010 at 20:17

rpstewart said:
You can get IDE to USB and SATA to USB cables but I'd go with a full on external caddy since the cables I've seen are self powered and hence only work with 2.5" HDDs. An external caddy will come with an external power supply and all the other gubbins you'd need.

or use a power from inside the pc connect the usb adapter to it and your away,, but thoise kits often come with a psu to power the drive mine did but ive done it this way as well..

mlbtheshow · 10 Feb 2010 at 10:00

OK thanks for that - so these caddies will let me plug in my old internal HDDs and then from there, they can plug into my laptop via USB and then let me transfer photos across, before formatting?

If thats true, are these sold by OCUK?

rpstewart · 10 Feb 2010 at 10:33

mlbtheshow said:
OK thanks for that - so these caddies will let me plug in my old internal HDDs and then from there, they can plug into my laptop via USB and then let me transfer photos across, before formatting?

If thats true, are these sold by OCUK?

Yep, that's what they do. Take a look here, just make sure you pick one which is the correct physical size (3.5" for desktop HDDs) and has the correct internal interface (SATA or IDE depending on your disks).