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How to salvage the hard drive from your old laptop and use it as an external hard drive

You might have an old laptop lying around your house, just gathering dust. Miss your old collection of movies and pictures from it? Worry no more, today we show you how to salvage the hard disk from your old laptop and use it just like any other external hard drive.

Note: Hard drive enclosures can be purchased online on several e-commerce sites
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[Kellieswope]

Worked perfectly. You just saved 8 years of data for me and so much cheaper than I expected. Dude.

[NAMAHE]

oooh i'm so excited! i'm gonna open up three of my non-functioning old laptops filled with long forgotten photos. thank you for this video, it was very helpful!

[julieholeman]

This is just what I need. I am not a computer guru, so the detail on this was wonderful. I would like to know what I search for when trying to find the right enclosure for my hard drives. I have 6 old computers and haven't thrown them out in hopes of retrieving photos from the hard drives.

[ramiroequipilag]

pull everything out that you need from that former C:drive and reformat it because it housed the operating system so that memory space could be claimed. Good Video for reclaiming old tech. I personally use Docking Station (Thermaltake BlacX Duet 2.5”/3.5” SATA I/II/III USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station). plug n play

[andrewsiafa]

Thanks for the knowledge shared! I just mistakingly damaged my previous one of my laptops and was worry how to use my damaged laptop's hard drive as an extended drive. Kudos...

[batmanxtreme]

I really like the screw driver you used, kindly provide description or buying link.plssss

[dennisrozario]

Your command over English is very good and your technical skill is also nice, I liked it!

[sudarshan]

What was the screw driver that you used ?

[ravikharb]

You should put purchasing links for the enclosure in the description.

[aadityashastri]

Could you share the link to buy that case ?

[SanDeep-wgcf]

Bro i had no disc partition on my old laptop, and all the docs were on C drive, and that laptop stoped working due to some motherboard issue, so if i take the hdd out, convert it like this and connect it with other pc, will the data of C drive will be there?

[anilkumardubey]

Ur screw driver very good pls provide me link..very good and technical video

[mwalker]

Can you download all that information from the old hard drive into a new laptop?

[nopeace]

What's the name of that thing that you put the hard drive into.
Out of curiosity is it inpusher
I have an outdated phone and it was hard to make out what you were saying

[amugza]

awesome! I got up envy dv7 my laptop just goes off on its own I tried bunch of methods it turns off does the same thing it's heating up issue. You think I can do this process on it ? Also it's 1th harddrive

[hmtnhk]

Are those transcend cases design to fit all hard drive sizes?

[MrDopestDope]

This is just like a hindi movie. So much of unnecessary information.

[rbonwheels]

Where can buy one for Sony vaio hard drive

[jarred]

@ 0.35 when the screwdriver opened. Lol what a G!

[李慧-up]

The hard disk from my old laptop has OS on Cdrive, do i need to format the partition and do you have video on how to partition it? Thanks.