Can I attach an external hard drive to this adapter and read what's on the hard drive?
1171128
This device is just an adapter and if it can be used to "adapt" between either devices or cables, it works just fine.
1171129
I don't know. This is beyond my expertise. I am using from an pad to my computer or my monitor. Haven't tried a hard drive. Seems as though you need an external power supply for the HD. It then might work.
1171130
yes if the tablet or whatever it is that you are trying to "read" on, has the software that supports the data on the drive.
2130945
Try another drive. If it recognizes a different drive, it is not an issue with the adapter and is likely a bad drive.
1485874
I try to hook mine up to ex- hard drive via USB and it did not play/or read any of the files.
1467910
Yes, provided the hard drive is not corrupted or broken. This adapter has its own power and has plugs to power your hard drive. Just attach hard drive and plug it in to a working computer. It will show up as a USB drive and you will be able to recover all data.
1242818
This device should work to connect your hard drive to another computer o retrieve our data
327397
connect it to a USB port. if you get prompted for an "action choice," select "open folder to view files" or something like that. if not, open explorer (Win) and access the drive manually. drag and drop files to/from it.
1985555
as far as I can tell you, yes, I have connected the unit to the computer and then the PCMCIA card inserted in the slot and the pc will read the information from an external drive and you can handle all the info as if you were using a USB stick.
1054715
Yes and No...Yes; only if the external drive is a "bare drive" (not in an enclosure)...No; if the hard drive is enclosed in a case.
575777
No power adapter. Just the cable from the external hard drive to the computer.
1058803
It should. However, if you're having a power issue with an external hard drive, and the adapter and cord are not the issue, your issue is going to be inside the hard drive. If it's under any kind of warranty I would suggest having it fixed that way. Otherwise, if you definitely have to do this yourself, you're going to have to open up the external hard drive in order to use this adapter's power adapter. I would suggest opening up your external hard drive first, if a warranty is not an option to fix this, to see if you can identify the problem before ordering this adapter.
1399988
I assume you plugged it into USB 3.0, right? Most USB 2.0 ports will not provide enough current to power an external HDD.
48000
This is a tricky one as ive never heard of that particular hard drive, but if its a 500gb drive, it should use one of the three connection types on this reader.. that being said if the hard drive isn't working, I cant guarantee this will make it work. Ive got a lot of hard drives to read using this though, so you SHOULD be good to go
1664935
No, it has been some time, this device did not do what I wanted it to do. Be able to connect a solid state drive as a a external hard drive.
1947861
You will have to refer to the manual that came with it, a list of hard drives are listed. Steve
1232669
Yes, you can connect an external hard drive using one of two USB 2.0 ports (front or rear), and can then watch movies stored on the connected drive in any of the supported formats. If your external drive requires more power than one USB port can provide you may need to consider an externally powered drive like the WD MyBook or similar.
539453
If your portable hard drive has a headphone jack use this. Or an adapter cable that's USB on one end and standard A/V connections on the other.
267951
yes, put the hard drive in an external enclosure to convert it into an external hard drive