My desktop died and I want to get the data off my WD 3.5 inch hard drive and put it on my laptop. Can this do that? Also do I need to buy cables too?
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This can only if the harddrive itself didn't die. It comes with cables so you do not have to buy any cables. So if you think your Sata cables or something elese went wrong this may be an opition. I used this because my old external harddrive pcb board died but the HDD was fine so I got this put it in and it was good to go. It is the cheapest option I hope it works but if it doesn't then your HDD died.
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I did something very similar to address a situation here. It worked like a charm.
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Yes, this should work fine. Remove the old drive from the desktop and mount it in this enclosure. Then power up the old drive with the included power supply and plug it into a laptop USB port with the included cable. The laptop should see the external drive and assign it a letter, probably D: or E:. You can then use Windows Explorer to drag and drop or cut and paste whatever you want. When you've got everything you want off of the old drive you could format it and use it for external backup or storage.
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OH no problem... just connect one of the other provided cords to the 2nd port on WD drive 1 to either port on the 2nd drive. It automatically shows up on your desktop as a second WD icon. Works great.
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Very easy. In my case, since I use 3 of them, I use external power supplies (Took them from old computers). As for the Hard drives, just get some SATA or IDE cables (depending on your HDs) and connect them to the computer. If the computer doesn't have more SATA or IDE connectors, you will need to get a card. Hope this helps
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You will need to make sure that you use drives for a desktop computer not a laptop. However, if you wanted to use a laptop hardrive you can buy adapters for those to allow them to fit into the computer, assuming that the your motherboard and power supply both accommodate the connections to your laptop hard drive.
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No, it's for a PC (Desktop Computer) - you need a 2.5 inch drive to install it in a laptop - I would not recommend using it as an external hdd - if you want it for that application I would recommend that you buy an external/portable hdd, it will be safer and work better. Good Luck! RH
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You don't This is meant to be an internal drive for a desktop computer and doesn't come with the necessary cabling to interface with a USB port on your laptop. There are sata to USB adapters you can purchase but it is an added expense. Retry. The drive and get an external DVD burner and you will not have as much equipment to haul around and easier to use
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I'm fairly sure your stuff can be retrieved but it would take a little ingenuity to get it. You would have to wire on a new USB connector to the wires in the Vado. USB wiring isn't too complicated - 2 data wires, a power and a ground. Might be some soldering involved. I've done this with other computer components to get them to work just long enough to get the data from them.
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I used 4TB Drives from WDC and Seagate, they work fine. I don't know if 5TB drive would work or not.
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I don't know what the WD hard drive calls for but I doubt it. This has the "micro" USB plug on one end, which is smaller than most external hard drives I've used have.
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Hello Kathryn, This cable never did work for me. I plugged it in and my laptop could not see the drive. Returning the cable was not an easy process so I just kept the cable. If your WD drive is less than a year old I'm sure if you called WD they would send you a free replacement if yours stopped working.
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You need the 2 ports to power the HDD. Depends on your hard drive model only one port may not be enough.
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I have my doubtsit would have to be transferred wirelessly to the computer and then to the hard drivethe hard drive I assume is not wireless
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Generally, YUP.Specifically, If your external drive works plugged into the laptop usb 3 port, It will work plugged into the hub which is then plugged into your usb 3 port on your laptop. I have 7 - 3tb seagate externals plugged in via a plugable hub into a pci-usb3 2-port extension on an old dell laptop running win 7 home premium. The second slot on the pci has a Seagate 3 TB plugged in directly. I get no vairance in speeds or performance from either slot/device. The 4TB should work as well.
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This drive is for a desktop PC,I'm not sure how of if you could hook it up to laptop,search external USB DVD drives on here.
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I installed a 2TB Western Digital internal drive and it works just fine. You can transfer files from your main PC onto this internal drive with the supplied cable that comes with this unit.My set up works great
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My husband's laptop died. We were told to buy this and the hard drive from the laptop goes into this and you can connect it to another computer. Glad we have it so our files are not lost. So I guess the answer would be yes.
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I tried it with a 3.5 inch hard drive and couldn't get it to work. It uses the USB port to supply power to the hard drive and the sata drive would not start. I tried a different adapter that used power from an AC outlet and that one worked great. I was able to connect to my laptop via USB and get all the data off of the drive. Not sure I am allowed to say which drive that was but I can tell you it cost less too.