Is this what I would need to connect my dell desktop dead IDE hard drive (WinXP) to my laptop (Win7) to transfer files from desktop to laptop?
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Assuming the problem you had is not with your hard disk (it is still spinning, no head crash.) This is exactly what you need. After you connect the cable, one side to your hard drive, the other side to the USB slot on your laptop, your old hard drive will become just another drive on the laptop. You can do whatever you want with it. I even used it as another drive to back up my data.
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The device is for connecting either an IDE drive or SATA drive to a USB port. I.e, you can use it to read an old IDE drive and copy it to a SATA drive on your new computer via the USB 2.0 port. The reverse is true. Very handy device.
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The short answer is yes. If you're able to "see" the dead laptop HD when you plug into the USB port of the new laptop then it just as simple as transferring from one drive to another on a partitioned HD
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This seems to require an SATA drive, so it won't work with the IDE drive that I had purchased.
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You can but you will need a new copy of Windows (unless you manage to transfer your OS files to the new drive) and you may want a hot swap USB adapter if you want to transfer your files from the current HD to the new one or use it without throwing it in a desktop. The SSD should noticeable speed up your Dell, too. And look up tutorials on removing and installing laptop hard drives
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Rob~ That is exactly the situation I had. I wanted to transfer files from my 2010 XP computer to my 2013 Win7 computer. It worked flawlessly.
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I'm unsure. You may need to download some software (info comes with it) before it will start working. I had to download a zip file to my desktop and then use a flash drive to transfer the software to my Dell Vostro 1500.
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Yes it will work just fine. I just tried it on my old Windows XP machine. After you plug it in, give it a couple of minutes to download the driver and recognize the drive.
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Scrupples' answer sounds about right. Maybe look for a budget monitor. I wonder if you could back up your old computer and then load the files onto the Dell. I'm not the most computer savvy guy BTW.
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If you atching this drive to you laptop externally to transfer data you will need to get a cable. If you replacing existing drive and old drive has a tray and its same width you should be fine. If this is for desktop then you will need spacers unless desktop has a 2.5 inch slot. Hope this helps
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IDE is a different interface than SATA. The transfer DID work for me with a Windows 7 upgrade, however.
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Hello L. Mccormick, you could try BNC TO BNC cable or VGA TO VGA cable to connect, it could save to your desktop hard drive when collected PC. Thank you!
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Agree with the other respondant. However, if you have a usb cable, try on another computer. The starTech sata IDE cable should work if the disk is sata IDE.
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Yes, this will work. Western Digital Black drives are some of the most reliable drives that I've encountered. It's only 9.5mm thick and should physically fit in any laptop with sata interface. Also, just because your Dell came with a 320gb drive, you are not limited to this size. The 500 and 750gb version of this drive will also work (any 2.5" sata drive including solid state drives that aren't over 9.5mm thick) will work. If you are going to image (clone) your existing drive to this one, you'll need a docking station or other usb interface. There are plenty of youtube videos showing how to change and clone laptop drives.
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Yes, you should be able to remove the hard drive from the laptop, hook it up to this gadget, and then connect it to another computer through a USB port. It will show up as a drive. It worked pretty slick on my crashed computer hard drive. The only problem I had was when I tried one of the plug in options {the one that looked most familiar to me} and it didn't work. Lord knows why there are two choices, there are no directions. The second one worked perfectly.
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If your laptop had something other than Xp on it originally, you might have to get into the BIOS settings and change the hard drive controller type from AHCI to ATA to get it to work with XP. Other than that, you will just need the drivers for rest of the hardware. Using another computer, goto Dell support online and enter your tag number and pick Windows XP as the OS. It will list all the drivers you will need.
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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 have successfully backed up an HP desktop PC running Win7 (64-bit) to 2 independent Seagate external HDDs (128GB USB 2.0 and 1TB USB 3.0) connected via this Plugable USB hub without any errors or failures. Each backup job handles more than 75GB of data. I would expect you to see similar performance with your Win7 Dell laptop.