Hey YouTube, what's up? Daniel here from TwinBytes with another tip for you.
This is something that...
probably more of a trade secret that some Tech's don't want to
give away. But it's a simple thing that you can do yourself. A lot of people
still didn't want to do it just because it's a bit of a pain. You got to buy some
equipment. By the time you buy it and spend time playing around with it, for a bit
more money you could pay someone else probably to do this for you.
If you have a computer that died,
and you need to transfer files from it to another computer that's working.
Basically you need to pull the hard drive under the computer and use it
as an external hard drive; and it would be like an external USB and then you can
transfer files to your computer. So I'm going to show you how to do that.
So basically you can see here you've got the hard drive after you pull it out of
your computer and look something like this. Depending on the type of hard drive.
If it's an IDE hard drive it'll look like this with pins on it. Which you can get
a closer look here. This one has pins, you see. Whereas some of the other ones,
now this is a laptop hard drive, so it's much smaller in comparison. It has something
other than pins. Now it's a little harder to see here probably, but if I tilt it on
the right angle, you can kind of see it's like a ribbon.
Now this is called a SATA hard drive, or S.A.T.A.
The other is an I.D.E. which has pins.
So depending on which one it is, you want to get the correct adapter,
and it's an IDE or SATA to USB.
So for the IDE one that we have, it'll have these type of end plug into the
hard drive and a USB on the other side to plug into your computer.
so you take this cable,
plug it in here.
and another part is just a power adapter.
So we've got the one end to plug in to the wall,
and the other end that plugs into the hard drive for power.
Plug that in there.
and now we're ready to plug the power into the wall,
and the USB into the computer, and start accessing it.
Now if it's a SATA hard drive,
like this one was, then what we do is use another type of cable like this.
and that just plugs in like that, and it'll have a different power adapter as well.
The other ends a USB. Plug into the computer.
Comes up just as a USB Drive or external hard drive would.
With with a new Drive letter.
Go into "my computer", click that drive letter, there's your files.
I'll show you how to do that here.
OK, so we got power plugged into the wall outlet now.
and plug in the USB.
and it may take a moment to detect it. Depending if there's some wear and tear
in the drive - it's going to take a while. But I can see my local drives
I already have our here. When it's ready, another drive letter will appear.
This is in Windows 7. So this is going to be categorized under devices with
removable storage, but it also depends on the view that you have. Either way you're
going to see your drive letters and a new letter will appear.
So it's popping up for your Live. I don't care about that. If you have Live you may get
something like that, but either way, the drive letter appears, and here is!
I got an F Drive now. So you can open it up and see the files in it.
Now this one has already been backed up and wiped out, because we're going to be
re-using it for something else. But it's the same example because I've done this
earlier before I can record. But that's it!
We plug it in with those cables I showed you.
That's it, plug it in, go in my computer,
open the drive letter, and it's copy and paste, from the one drive letter
to another drive letter. Wherever you want to put it. On your own hard drive or plug in
another external hard drive and it'll come up with another letter, and just go
in there and copy and paste everything over. Or if you've got some other special
software that you want to backup or do an image or all kinds of other more
technical ways of doing it, go ahead and do that. At least now that
you've got this far, you can do anything you want with it. You can work right off
it if you wanted to. But if the drive is in bad shape, I'd highly recommend
getting the data off there, back it up something else, so you don't get stuck in
this position again. Alright, so anyway that's another episode for you and
hopefully like it, helps out, and let me know if you have any questions or other
videos that you'd like to see. Alright, thanks a lot guys!
Take care, bye for now.