How to make an external hard drive from an old hard drive using a cheap rack - video tutorial

Hi friends, this video tutorial will teach you to make your own USB external hard drive, for this we use an old hard drive and a rack (cabinet + circuits) cheap.
When you want to make an external hard drive have to think about mobility, so it is preferable to use hard drives 2,5 inch (laptop), they need less energy and will settle on the amperage USB 2.0. Hard drives of 3,5 inch need more energy, so we will not get USB amperage and we will have to use external power supplies. From my point of view is not too comfortable folesesti a 3,5 inch external hard drive, unless you need a phone if I keep on my desk all the time.
Hard drives can be expensive foreign trade and their quality will not be top producers in general external hard drives use drives worst for this.
In principle it is quite easy to assemble an external hard drive. You just have to carefully fitted hard drive rack and ready. While the rack mount disk must be careful not to rush back PCBs hard drive may be small parts that can break pretty quickly when entering the housing.
When connecting external hard drive is simple job but disconnection should be aware that a hard disk is a USB stick, it must be disconnected from the operating system (safe remove hardware), only then can be disconnected from the PC .
Tip:
If you still want to buy a rack, you better legeti one USB 3.0, this connection is 10 2.0 times faster than USB.

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  1. Loading difficult tutorialu (video)

  2. Slow loading tutorialu

  3. Jellfis:
    Loading difficult tutorialu (video)

    brown:
    Slow loading tutorialu

    Today I put this tutorial to 1920 × 1080 to 30fps, see what you think.
    Please tell us what processor / video card and how much RAM you have. Also tell us and processor load on task manager.
    It would be good to leave comments and if runs well and comment in terms of image quality.
    If you after all are not satisfied we will relegate to a lower resolution and a low frame rate.

    We welcome comments ....

    • Hi Cristi, works very well and I have the video card in your PC!
      NUJ possible to others to Aiva C charger or Internet bandwidth less!
      Very cool tutorial and even have a house 40 Gb HDD 7200 sqm or as they say sata sata 2 3 and I will go do my external HDD?

    • View Product said

      Nvidia GS 7100
      Intel Celeron D331
      Gigabyte GA-8I945GZME-RH
      2 Gb Ram, Windows XP sp3
      Configuration pretty old and weak. But still the other tutorials see better.

      It runs very hard. The load on the processor is obviously… 100%.

      Probably a 1280 × 720 at 25 frames… or less, would please a lot more people. Some have newer computers… others older. Youtube could still be used for tutorials that require filming. There, everyone chooses the desired quality.

    • Use Windows Home Premiun SP7 on 1 64 bit (came with PC)
      AMD Athlon II x3 to 400 3000 3 MHz core (15%)
      4 gb RAM
      NVIDIA GeForce nForce 6150 430 (integrated use of RAM 256mb)
      1920X1080 monitor resolution
      6.1 Mbps bandwidth
      mention that the bandwidth range is

    • would be an idea to appear tutorials in 2 versions
      one with greater clarity
      and the other to go more easily

  4. resumption said

    tutorialu very good, in terms of image quality is nothing to reproach, runs perfect, loaded fine .. I say

  5. Cristi even you to answer me this question I left her a tutorial yes no one answered me!
    Dude I have a question if I update the PC's say I license something bad can happen that is to blame someone say sami sami min nuj the HDD for what anlize something? Just wondering curozitate as a boy has windows xp sp3 unlicensed and has actively firmwall auto update and all that?
    So in short anything can happen For all u worrying him?
    Acceasta question I hope once puso spuare not you ask a hundred times but that's all he wants to know

    Thank you! successful and make more tutorials about linux tutorials he wants to go to him as he has Virtualbox nuj to not let me install tells me to give sal stop the installation?

    • Logic like no one in this world can come to you and you do not know what componenda eg hdd to take it to analyze! It's impossible Unless you're one guy who forge credit cards adunci militia comes with a search warrant and take you all safe apsolut all pc laptop but I think it's your case :)! A and can run pirated windows but its functionality will decrease mean you will not be able to do many issues on it if it's 7 2 restarts the interval in 2 hours or less!

  6. My procesoru: Pentium (R) 4 3.00GHz
    Ram: 3 gb
    256MB ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series video card. It moves hard…. 🙁

  7. tutorial loaded immediately clear to see cursive and I E2 intel core duo to 7300 2,66 GHz 2 ddr2 gb ram and you 5670 512 gb hd / 128 bit

  8. to me goes well just sign appears for a little 3 load times but returns quickly, like in 1-2 seconds and I was amazed that task amounted to 70-80% but no problema.initial odd I thought netul go difficult for me.
    use an acer laptop
    Intel Core Duo 2 T5800
    Video Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650, 512 MB VRAM
    system: windows ultimate 7 64 bit
    RAM: 3g ddr2
    task: 70-80% and sometimes 90%
    I would not have problems but those with weaker computers may have trouble jumping

  9. 20% load on the CPU

  10. Goes well, the quality is good on:
    Intel i5
    ram: 4 gb
    Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520m cuda for 1gb

  11. When I sit 100% but yes it is good dc nuj see clearly and correctly!

  12. gaby:
    Cristi even you to answer me this question I left her a tutorial yes no one answered me!
    Dude I have a question if I update the PC's say I license something bad can happen that is to blame someone say sami sami min nuj the HDD for what anlize something? Just wondering curozitate as a boy has windows xp sp3 unlicensed and has actively firmwall auto update and all that?
    So in short anything can happen For all u worrying him?
    Acceasta question I hope once puso spuare not you ask a hundred times but that's all he wants to know

    Thank you! successful and make more tutorials about linux tutorials he wants to go to him as he has Virtualbox nuj to not let me install tells me to give sal stop the installation?

    I do not think you do one thing, the people at Microsoft are very tolerant in this regard. About other software companies do not know what to say.
    In any case it's good to have liceenta software or use free software.

  13. gaby: At least you Cristi to answer me this question I left her a tutorial yes no one answered my Brother I have a question if I update the PC's say I license something bad can happen that is to blame someone min sami sami say what anlize nuj the HDD for something? Just wondering curozitate as a boy has windows xp sp3 unlicensed and has actively firmwall auto update and all that? Briefly So something can happen For all u worrying him? Acceasta puso question I hope once will not spuare I ask a hundred times but that's all you want to know thanks! successful and make more tutorials about linux tutorials he wants to go to him as he has Virtualbox nuj to not let me install tells me to give sal stop the installation?

    Logic like no one in this world can come to you and you do not know what componenda eg hdd to take it to analyze! It's impossible Unless you're one guy who forge credit cards adunci militia comes with a search warrant and take you all safe apsolut all pc laptop but I think it's your case :)! A and can run pirated windows but its functionality will decrease mean you will not be able to do many issues on it if it's 7 2 restarts the interval in 2 hours or less!

  14. As many videotutoriale to such resolution / clarity!
    In my normal loading as a processor must i3,4 gb rami and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1gb

  15. Hi Cristi, I have a problem with a laptop hdd hitachi 320gb 5k500B park has has SMART Attributes Realocation Warning Event Count appears doubtful 1 and has Badura. I still can rely on it or should I take one?

  16. Goes well tutorial.
    Since I replaced the HDD (Segate 640GB 5400rpm) from laptop with an SSD and not HDD used in anything I ordered a rack Spire Rack MiniPod USB3.0.Am us b3.0 both laptop and PC.
    HDD sizes that can be used for rack correspond with what I got.
    Thanks for the idea.

    • I got MiniPod USB3.0 Spire Rack mounted HDD ul.Am and I did a test drive and transfer-130 140 MB / seconds s.In transferred 700MB film.
      Obs rack is good as no fasteners and inside has only 2 exterior.Are the screws for protective cover and I got a small screwdriver.
      I did an external hdd I 622 total.Greutatea gb total (including cable usb3.0) is 232 g

  17. I have internet from laptop Asus RDS following components:
    Processor: i5 460M
    Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 460M
    HDD: Segate Momentus hybrid 500 G
    Windows: Windows 8 PRO

    Tutorial went smoothly as the other, and I was standing between the processor and 17 19% and the Firefox browser (I had open while watching the tutorial kis 2013 and messenger).
    PS: maybe I'll make a tutorial and about Kis 2013 which was launched in Romania (not going to download it sin Romanian language, even if the site appears to them as in Romanian).
    Thank you for the tutorials offered!

  18. Cristi-admin:
    Today I put this tutorial to 1920 × 1080 to 30fps, see what you think.
    Please tell us what processor / video card and how much RAM you have. Also tell us and processor load on task manager.
    It would be good to leave comments and if runs well and comment in terms of image quality.
    If you after all are not satisfied we will relegate to a lower resolution and a low frame rate.

    We welcome comments ....

    Cristi Hello!

    I am currently in college in Denmark, and I use the wireless on campus. The tutorial loads very, very hard. My laptop isn't very good either, so I don't expect it to run full hd. I have an Intel Pentium M, 1.70 Ghz, 2048 MB cache | 1 GB RAM | ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 - 32 MB.
    Probably the best solution would be to be able to choose the desired quality as youtube, but do not know to what extent this can be achieved.

    All the best!

  19. UPDATED

    We cut little resolution and frame rate, now you should go to all.
    I want to know if you still have problems from now on.

    All these questions make sense, trying to see what can network and your computers, so we can send you the best quality in good condition.
    Preferably as though to stop applications that do not need those that needlessly consume your band width.

    We welcome comments ....

  20. Windows Ultimate OS 7 SP1.
    Processor i5 3,7GHz.
    4GB RAM DDR3 / 1066
    Integrated Video 64MB
    Kingston 30GB SSD - SATA2
    Internet of RDS, the lowest abomament.
    170-inch Philips 17S monitor, 1280 × 1024 resolution
    The processor is loaded to 23% while watching the tutorial.
    Memory consumption: less peste1GB (Default 800 and something MB)
    Without antivirus.
    It seems super fine without any interruption.
    Thanks for all you do for us, visitors to the site.

  21. The tutorial went very well, loading Imedia despite pc tutorials on that track is pretty weak.
    OS: Win8
    Browser: Chrome
    Processor: Intel Core Duo 2
    Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GS 8400
    Net: 14 mb / sec

  22. View Product said

    Now it seems to be going better, more fluently. 75-85% processor load (100% full screen, 1680 × 1050 monitor resolution). The rest of the configuration:
    Nvidia GS 7100
    Intel Celeron D331
    Gigabyte GA-8I945GZME-RH
    2 Gb Ram, Windows XP sp3
    It doesn't look perfect though… but I can't ask for more from the current grinder either.

  23. Really do need to change the resolution tutorial had left so it was not the tutorial was from the net. If they use normal rains not loading. Cristi not spoil for resolution. that X can not see that's to wait longer. Do not blame the tutorial.

  24. ASUS:
    Really do need to change the resolution tutorial had left so it was not the tutorial was from the net. If they use normal rains not loading. Cristi not spoil for resolution. that X can not see that's to wait longer. Do not blame the tutorial.

    We must keep in mind that not everyone can run 1080p. Older PCs can not decode it. Bandwidth is also important, not everyone has super connections.

  25. Adrian Gudus said

    KodeJust:
    Regarding the tutorial, this rack is compatible with these HDDs
    ??
    What do you recommend hdd first or the second?

    Yes, it is compatible with the two HDDs. I recommend Segate Momentus

  26. Cristi-admin: We must keep in mind that not everyone can run 1080p. Older PCs can not decode it. Bandwidth is also important, not everyone has super connections.

    Yes and I tested on a Intel Pentium 4 2800Ghz, 1gb ddr1 dual ram with a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb 256biti and works perfectly without any stuttering Sp3 Windows XP with connection 10Mb / s net

    • View Product said

      Asus, from what I've noticed, you don't think very coherently. I tell you, if you were the administrator of a site with the same profile, then you would be obliged to listen to the opinions of visitors. Ok, you tested on a configuration that you consider weak, but there may be others that are even weaker than that. There are a lot of possible configurations, older or newer. If visitors appear in the comments section telling you that they don't like it, you should kind of believe them. Otherwise… they won't come again… and you still have something to lose.
      Not all computers can run 1920 × 1080. So you have to find a balance, to be satisfied with the one who wants high quality but to work a little better with the one with a weaker PC. So a 1280 × 720 can be considered a satisfactory option for everyone.
      OK, you can also add 1920 × 1080, but in this case you should also offer an alternative to a lower quality, Ex 864 × 480. Thus the visitor algae the desired quality.
      In addition, 1920 × 1080 also requires a better internet connection, which not everyone has.

  27. Better go now. Thank you changed

  28. brown:
    Works perfectly now. Thanks modified cavreau seeks to calm myself tutorialu .. because Mereg few seconds and then starts to load, and so incontinu.

    going

  29. NVIDIA GeForce GPU g102m 512mb
    CPU intel core duo 2 t6600 2.2ghz 2mb cache l2
    4 gb ram ddr2
    7 ultimate win x86
    In this configuration tutorial works perfectly

  30. I would also like to ask you something. I made an external hard drive from an old laptop, just like in the tutorial, the hard drive is SATA on the old laptop, it worked well, but externally on the USB PC, I can't see it, in the device manager it appears to me as an Unknown device but it doesn't appear in my computer at all, I use windows 7 and when it installs my driver it says "the driver was not installed successfully" I also tried with power from 2 USB ports and I still don't know what to make them for 2 weeks I struggle because I feel like breaking it.
    As you are the hottest up to you I learned a lot of issues so CONTINUE

  31. Cristi greeting, interesting tutorial of curiosity I looked at my hdd write 2.5V 5 1.0 inch e vb a Hitachi HDD from a Dell Latitude laptop d620 its peak is like going on usb 2.0. Must be something in the controller does not know what to say. I have a rack made of asus namely VENTO .If you can put a link 2 one HDD and one with the rack. Cheers
    Hdd> http://www.stuartconnections.com/12332-thickbox/Hitachi-Travelstar-HTS541080G9SA00-HDD-PCB-Board-PN-0A27404-MLC-DA1519.jpg
    Rack> http://arch10.okr.ro/auctions.v3/700_700/2011/05/21/b/0/663167929721801932876240-5919203-700_700.jpg

  32. Hello Cristi tried to use external hard drive as internal hard because the feeder broke me but when you hook up and I turn the pc does not start I tried on other PCs but all the same make, that might be the problem ?

  33. OS: Linux Ubuntu 12.04 64bit
    Browser: Mozilla Firefox 15.0.1
    Flash Player: v11,2,202,238
    Open only one tab of this page, running videotutorialul. The resources consumed are:
    - firefox: 4% cpu usage; 225 mb ram
    - container plugin (resources occupied by flash player): 20% cpu usage; 100 mb ram.
    The film runs smoothly. However, I recommend 720p, clarity this clip 1080p "beat" more to 720p. The film seems an upscale 720p-at the 1080p. Im Gazette I 1080p / FullHD and can realize the difference.
    Conclusion: I recommend 720p. More than not pointless

  34. Cornelius Padurariu said

    The samsung S1 not open at all. plyer screen remains black.

  35. Intel Duo T2 Core6600 2.20GHz
    4096 MB RAM
    NVIDIA GeForce G 103M 2268 MB
    Browser: Mozilla Firefox
    Goes great tutorial!
    Please put a link where you got the rack from…. I only found ..fff expensive

  36. Very useful absolutely all tutorials. Congratulations on originality and this desire to help IT enthusiasts. A small request, if possible, more articles about SEO, pt. me one at least, are lost in the sea of ​​information that exists on the net. And do not find some solutions and relevant answers.

    Cat pt. the a-techniques, which can not complete this tutorial, external rack that supports both laptop and desktop hard drives (3.5 ″ and 2.5 ″) can be found in specialty stores. I paid 110 lei for an ICY BOX with power supply.

  37. Cristi-admin:
    Today I put this tutorial to 1920 × 1080 to 30fps, see what you think.
    Please tell us what processor / video card and how much RAM you have. Also tell us and processor load on task manager.
    It would be good to leave comments and if runs well and comment in terms of image quality.
    If you after all are not satisfied we will relegate to a lower resolution and a low frame rate.

    We welcome comments ....

    2.5 Dual Core Processor, 4Gb Ram, Video Card 128 bit download 1.5Mb / s and upload 100kb / s. Loading difficult.

  38. View Product said

    I 2,8 GHZ Processor AMD Dual Core AthlonX2
    Ram 2GB
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 8500 512 Mb

    I loaded super tutorial. And it sees suppppeerr!
    Good job! Keep up the good work!

  39. I recently took a rac 3,5 external "hard drive 1T and I placed UAC.În place I put a hard laptop.Având the difference in supply current required by the two hard drives risk to burn on the Laptop put the 3,5 Cancer "(has external charger)?
    I checked if it works and so the answer is yes.

  40. CPU: i5
    Ram: 4GB
    Video: ATI 5850
    Browser: Google Chrome 4-5% cpu usage
    LAN: 89mb / d
    Go hard (go jerky and all load from time to time).

  41. Hi Cristi, I have an Asus laptop K50IN (CPU: Intel Core Duo 2 2.20 GHz GPU: GeForce G102M 512 MB, HDD: Seagate 500 GB, RAM: 4 GB) and I recently decided to replace HDD the laptop with an SSD.
    I bought a Kingston SSD V200 and I mounted laptop and I bought a HDD Rack and I made externally. I installed Windows 7 Enterprise X64. When you start your laptop plugged in I have no problem, but when you just start with the battery goes very hard, sometimes even after finishing blochiaza to display the Windows logo. That is the problem? Somehow laptop battery does not have enough power to supply SSD? Thank you!

  42. I have a question since you've found the section Hard drive. A USB stick can burn inside (short circuit)? That got my recent one 8gb and no longer reads the computer on at all. Other stickers read. Thank you. Very good tutorials. Congratulations ..

    • Is it a kingmax stick? Did you somehow defragment it and it didn't work? Yes they can fail but not short circuit…. Ultimately try formatting with a linux. (There are about two programs designed in linux that do well, which are found on almost all versions of hiren's Boot CD)

  43. GHZ AMD Athlon 2.6
    Nvidia 9400GT
    2GB ram
    Windows 7
    Internet 66 Mb / s, Google Chrome
    Merge jerky.

    • . I would suggest the use of Comodo Dragon based on the Chrome, which to me does not work at all jerky, or a subscription to the net with a higher speed.

  44. Something is wrong with this video, all loading fine, only that loading extremely hard and no picture you can not see well

  45. I Bravo.eu e2180,2 dual core pc gb ram, gf 8600gt and upc internet download 60Mb / s and upload 4Mb / s and go first data.Mozzila Frirefox fluent 15 the latest version of flash player. I do not use google chrome as any video goes jerky regardless of site.Windows xp sp3.Incarcare 30% on full image screens.multumesc.Calitate supeer.Pentru pandele usb burned far as I know I will not be hdd auzit.Pt Emil.vezi The 3.5 inches as those asking 0,72 A USB (which has only 0,5). verify it through a separate power supply pc power supply or food.

  46. and racks are 3.0 usb, so says here: http://www.emag.ro/rack-extern-raidsonic-cu-interfata-usb-3-0-suporta-hdd-uri-2-5-negru-ib-223stu3-b/pd/EV807BBBM/Am .am Intel I5-2500K (OC 3,7 Ghz, Gtx 560 video card, 8 gigabytes of frame at 1600 Mhz) with 6-12% CPU load

  47. The tutorial goes infamous, replay. I have a 3570k, 4Gb ram on a motherboard Intel last generation. Do not know why most tutorials lately loading very slowly. There's something about the web server?

  48. Ovidiu:
    The tutorial goes infamous, replay. I have a 3570k, 4Gb ram on a motherboard Intel last generation. Do not know why most tutorials lately loading very slowly. There's something about the web server?

    You had to say "my net is execrable", from a switch (usually bad switches) you are wired 24 subscribers. What do you think happens when all these 24 users use utorrent, youtube, skype, etc at the same time?
    In this tutorial I run the Sony Xperia U, an Orange mobile connection 3G / HSDPA.
    The truth is that I downgraded from 30fps to 15fps tutorial because they could not watch those with older hardware. When I walked bitrate.

  49. Adrian Gudus said

    Ovidiu:
    The tutorial goes infamous, replay. I have a 3570k, 4Gb ram on a motherboard Intel last generation. Do not know why most tutorials lately loading very slowly. There's something about the web server?

    We do not cover the "da carter" companies where a "nea Ghita" stretches the "no cable" from one block to another and will connect all 3 switches.
    Do subscriptions serious serious serious companies that have infrastructure, solid, stable, such as UPC, Romtelecom, RDS, iLink
    With such a serious subscription you will be guaranteed the bandwidth in the contract and if it does not comply, you who prosecute.
    The time for crankcase networks is long gone

  50. Very good tutorialu Christ. Really I do next with your hard disk. Congratulations to the entire team you do.

  51. acquisition hardware tutorials you? I saw that appeared on socket AMD fm2 and do not know if it's worth to buy amd or intel remain.

  52. Hello, I have a pretty old HD 40 Gb, the problem is that I got a rack from someone and fail to attach the old hard drive to the rack because they have jacks that connect different in principle from my hard drive jacks are other than those shown in the tutorial. I want to know if there is another possibility to be able to use my internal hard drive as external drive. Thank you

  53. hello, cristi
    I am the victor
    if possible, pt.AFONI
    1.hd external… can be used with external OS on pc? [pc password at work?
    2.ssd suunt great, but they can use a old laptop (ibm r51?
    thank you,
    Victor

  54. Bosca Paul said

    Congratulations for what you do, I love it.

    And I'll look for a rack that I broke 2.5 Lapopie and stayed with components D phase Worse is that I spoil before I purchased a Seagate Expansion External HDD 2TB, 3.5inch, 7200rpm, 32MB, USB 3.0, Black not very expensive but it goes lightning, the disadvantage is that even if the power unit must have 3.0 connection has separate power cable.

    The question is that if I buy a laptop I can not send 3.0 current and no longer stick to the outlet? I had to ask because the former Lapopie usb 3.0

    Thank you

  55. Thank you very much… I have learned something new and I will always learn from you! Respect!

  56. Hi, I have a very good tutorial queries but I have a hard 6475 Toshiba MK1.0GSX of this means that I need separate power, that does not work via USB, right?

  57. Good idea, I 2 hdd just sitting Sites
    Thanks for the tutorial

  58. Hello Cristi! Can I use external hard drive tutorial obtained according to a tablet as a storage medium?

  59. Hello, I wanted to know myself if I could connect a usb stick usb ports 3.0 2.0 on (the laptop does not have those blue USB ports). Works? Difference can only be read-write speed? Thank you.

  60. I want to know if a USB rack 3.0 works if the computer is usb drive 2.0. Is it compatible? Or should I buy a whole rack 2.0 USB?

    • Salut.Treaba stand in the way of rack urmator.Degeaba USB 3.0 that you should have the same transfer speed with USB computer 2.0.Viteza the transfer will be provided by USB 2.0.Dar somewhat compatible with each other, in meaning that if you 2.0 USB cable between the computer and external HDD (rack) 3.0 USB will work, but 2.0.Daca speed of your computer and usb usb 3.0 3.0 can benefit from external rack 3.0 speed. As a comparison, nothing of a volume of water in a large barrel yes when you want to empty a small diameter hose (2.0) will be empty more slowly than if you had one large diameter (3.0) but empties.

  61. hi, I know that they are not subject to hard ..... My current go .. not good, I have one from an older computer, the thing is as old jack has a wider different from the current one. . l.as withe monta.va as thanks!

  62. cornel:
    hi, I know that they are not subject to hard ..... My current go .. not good, I have one from an older computer, the thing is as old jack has a wider different from the current one. . l.as withe monta.va as thanks!

    You had hard disk with SATA interface and the old one is IDE or IDE slot connected to it, if you like something on the motherboard, or you buy an IDE to SATA adapter. See that you need and ide cable (looks like a tie).
    I still advise you to do your get a sata hard drive.

  63. I wrote something and I expect a response from the site administrators, but nothing!

  64. Welcome. Going to put in rank and a dvd burner from a laptop? I rank sites for optical drives? Thank you!

  65. rack * scz

  66. Good afternoon. For a SATA hard disk rotation 5400, 5 Volts and Amperes 0.451 rack is compatible with USB 2.0?

  67. Cristian salute you and I really hope you can help me. I bought a rack that had a 320 GB hard disk from a laptop that broke down. It is installed on Windows Vista OS or 7 (can not remember exactly). I want to use it as an external hard drive, to keep him on the .mkv video to see them on an LG smart TV. The problem is that it connect to the USB jack telefizorului, the power light turns on the TV rack but did not recognize him nor the media nor anything

    • The format for that is fat or fat32.
      However from what I understand from your comment, your TV does not provide enough current on that usb port.
      You could try a USB stick.
      Some TVs have USB port for service only.

  68. Rascanu dumitru said

    I have a Lenovo leptop n500 and I broke hdd.era western brand digital.te Please spunemi can use external one? In my case IMI's very hard to find, I am sitting in Austria: found only external: Thank you so much: DORU

    • Adrian Gudus said

      If your external hard drive out of the casing (also called the rack ii) has the same connectors as in laptop, you're welcome.

  69. Hi, I have a hard drive septae of the image:
    http://i.ebayimg.com/t/TOSHIBA-MK5055GSX-HDD2H21-500-GB-LAPTOP-HARD-DRIVE-LBA-976773168-SATA-201-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/z/BAwAAOxyoahSVD6z/$%28KGrHqR,!pIFIZW8ieltBSVD6zGU5Q~~60_12.JPG
    I understood the tutorial singing at 1.0 A rack goes external mobile USB only 2.0. Right? what to do? Only one with separate power? Thank you!

  70. ionuth13 said

    Hello,
    What rack can buy this HDD: HDD Toshiba 3TB, 7200rpm, 64MB SATA 3.0?
    Now, I don't know whether to buy a rack or to buy a Mini PC like: MSI Wind Box DC111 Mini PC in which to insert HDD (Toshiba 3TB HDD, 7200rpm, 64MB, SATA 3.0). As far as I can tell, this MSI Wind Box DC111 Mini PC comes with an HDD: 2,5 ″ SATA III 500GB 5400 RPM, which means I can't insert my HDD into it.

    What do I really want…
    I own a Sony KDL 42W650A TV and I want to watch 40GB, 80GB Blu Ray movies… I tried with PS3 Media Server, but the movie jerks and the laptop processor is only 95% (I think my laptop is to blame: HP Dv7 1004ea, or it can also be wireless (wired connection I would not want).
    So I thought a Mini PC would be okay, a Mini PC to which I can connect Toshiba 3TB HDD, 7200rpm, 64MB, SATA 3.0. and use the TV as a monitor…

    Thank you,
    A wonderful evening!

  71. Thank you, your tutorial was very useful to me! Everything went wonderfully, I also found the rack china, cheap and good 🙂 Unfortunately, the old hard drive was from a poppy that broke and now I can't read it on the new PC, I only see the bridge. I know, reformat, but I'm losing the old data, so I'll try to go with the beer to a poppy in the neighborhood first… Without Donald.

  72. Hi,
    I have a hard drive to a laptop broke and want to use it as external drive using a rack. On this hard remains operating system or be formatted? Thanks

  73. Hello,
    I took from the market a 2.5 ′ HDD and a rack from ebay, from the Chinese. The problem is that when I connect it to the PC, it doesn't see it, and the HDD makes some very faint noise, like the pickup board that 'hangs'. Isn't the HDD good? Can anything else be done with him?
    Thanks.

  74. Cristian said

    Hi There. I followed your tutorial and I thought I made myself an external hard drive. I have an old laptop that you no longer use. He has a Seagate hard 160GB (I get me than to sit around there :). ) Are 100mm's size. x 70mm. x 10mm. I would like to order this Rack:

    http://www.emag.ro/rack-extern-hdd-vantec-nexstar-tx-nst-210s2-bk-pentru-hdd-2-5-usb-2-0-negru-rhvatx210s2bk/pd/DYCG1BBBM/?ref=smart-history_1

    I'm not too good, I hope to help me. Thank you very much!

  75. Useful tutorial. Please ajutama with guidance: I just like the HDD rack and presentation, but connected to the PC is not recognized and small ensemble beeps intermittently with a frequency of about 2 seconds and the LED on the rack is light portocaliu- pink. I WIN XP Professional system.
    What should I do / I check in such a situation.
    Anticipated thanks for the answer.

  76. I have an HDD on an external rack with a separate power supply… where I lost the cable. I can't find on any IT site that type of 5-pin cable placed on a circle. Suggestions? Thanks.

  77. Howdy. I would need some clarification. I have a hard drive taken from a laptop, 7200 rpm of 500 gb, I put it in a RAC, I made a single partition, I put a movie on it and I want to connect it to the TV and it doesn't work. What should I do about it? (on laptop / pc it works .. everything is ok, but on tv it doesn't see my hard drive at the source… it only gives me the ext and the tv cable, I want to mention that the normal sticks work).

    • Adrian Gudus said

      Formateză 32 FAT format hard drive. We have several tutorials on the site on formatting. You can find the search box top right.

  78. It's very useful the job you do, and personally thank you, I learned a lot from you, but I also have a problem I have a laptop ASUS K73S 17.3 diagonal screen at a resolution of 1600 × 900 which is very good and was bought 3.6 years ago at the recommendation of TA, for which you also made a video tutorial, my problem would be that I have the 2 slots for hdd / ssd, but at the second slot I would like to mount an SSD but I don't have that tablet, the support of which catch the ssd and mount it on the laptop, how could I mount the ssd there, as I can't find that tablet at all on the net or at the services, I have an idea, namely that the tablet that keeps your hdd in the middle and that's how I would catch the hdd and ssd with 2 screws each, what do you think?

  79. Another option would be to buy an SSD with Bundle kit that contains the external RACK SSD and use the operating system's external, but how you say it and you usb2 tutorial with very low speeds, so not worth it, and to put the HDD in the external rack and SSD in laptops would be an alternative, but as long as I 2 bays for HDD / SSD would not want to hold one external, how can I fix the SSD in your laptop without taking problems, for instance with double adhesive schotch?

  80. Hi…
    I bought a rack 2.5 USB HDD SATA, one very cheap no-name and I connected HDD him.
    It works very well, high speed connectors BUT BEHIND DESKTOP USB ports.
    When I connect it to the USB plugs in front of the desktop, starters and doorknobs, doorknobs ... it makes noise and doesn't work… instead USB - STICKS GO without a problem.
    I put in another HDD RACK go anywhere more expensive and connect.

    What can I rack make them cheaper to go or what USB PORT?
    THANK YOU….

  81. FLORIN RUSU said

    I used external HDD rack to put your original acer laptop 500 of 5745G after I replaced with SSD.
    I removed Windows from the original HDD.
    Original USB install Windows and I changed to boot from USB SSD.
    When I came restart with USB hard drive connected to the rack of a conflict between Windows from Windows HDD and SSD.
    I didn't realize what was going on… SSD won. The HDD cannot be recovered and data is lost.
    NO Butare I changed it, LOST DATA AND HDD.

  82. At the 2,5 inch HDDs must use a USB cable 10cm up to a single USB, USB from your laptop.
    It works for me without problems, if I put another stick it won't work :))…. Strange ?!?!?!! It's just a stick!

  83. Cristi video greeting you and how to make hard pc in external hard ??? I do not really have one idea how to do this. mention that desktop hard drive is SATA send your thank you very much

  84. mraAndroidZone said

    I want to buy an external hard drive and use it on one laptop, but first I want to know if it is possible to install software on external hard drive? From laptop internal hard drive I scratched and I can not bear to read files or install higher 1 GB, otherwise locks the laptop and it says your PC error Might have low disk or virtual hard disk is damaged.
    I have a laptop with 1 Gb RAM, DualCore, 1.60Ghz processor, byte 32, 130 GB internal hard drive; and I want to install the external hard one soft editing program 2 gb, and I thought that if I start always laptop with external hard drive connected to the laptop will I read it and not giving me error .
    What do you advise me to do?

  85. mraAndroidZone said

    Hello.
    In terms of quality and preservation of files, such as better?
    Let me buy an external hard drive, or to turn an old internal hard drive into a hard diskextern using a rack?

  86. mraAndroidZone said

    Hello. How do I know if the internal hard drive is scratched, damaged? What watch?
    I have an old unit with 2 hard drives and know that one is damaged pretty bad, but not know how to make the difference between them.
    Thank you!

  87. where is the video that appears nowhere ami not only comment and ads

  88. Hello “VideoTutorial.ro”. I have an internal Rw DVD and I want to make it an external dvdRw. What accessories should I buy? A whole rack?
    Can I use and like to write DVDs?
    Thank you very much!

  89. Bogdan Dragnuta said

    Hi there!
    I purchased 2 ssd's which I converted to external ones with the help of the racks but when I connect them to the laptop the light bulbs come on but they do not even display them in This PC (I am running on Windows 10)
    What should I do to see them?
    Thank you!

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