All you need is an enclosure, a sturdy casing for the drive that provides an IDE interface and USB connection. Today only, deal-a-day site Froobi has a SimpleTech 2.5-inch USB external hard drive ...

By buying an internal drive and an enclosure to put it in, ... from Outpost.com and a 3.5-in. USB 2.0 External IDE hard-drive case for $33 at www.xpcgear.com. (Total cost: $83.) ...

Install the hard drive of your choice inside this wooden hard drive enclosure from Peter Kinne Designs, ... Just plug a drive into its IDE interface and hook it up via USB, ...

Building your own external hard drive is easy to do, ... (IDE) drive, with 40 pins. Most enclosures support one or the other, so it's important to know which internal interface your drive has.

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be ... for example, has the Rosewill RCW-616 Laptop 2.5″ to Desktop 3.5″ IDE Hard Drive Adapter ... an enclosure that turns your old ...

[Alec] needed a way to connect an IDE DVD drive using USB. Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive enclosure and connected to his DVD drive. Bang ...

Turn an Old Hard Drive into an External Drive. If you don't have a ton of external drives lying around, ... IDE-based external drive enclosure and connect it to your computer via USB.

I reviewed the WiebeTech RTX100-Q hard drive enclosure from WiebeTech on 20 January 2008 ... The diminutive adapter attaches to any 2.5 or 3.5-inch IDE, PATA or SATA drive mechanism and gives you ...

Mounting the hard drive in your enclosure varies from case to case. ... For my sample installation, I'll be using the IDE hard drive pictured above. Step 1: Install new drive software.

Like Westley in the "Princess Bride" sometimes hard drives are only mostly dead. If you have a drive that appears kaput, you can sometimes retrieve the data off of it using a USB to SATA/IDE ...