Upgraded computer, all data is on old HDD that is no longer supported... [SOLVED]

L Ron Howard

I upgraded my computer. My RAM was going bad, and I figured since I have been having problems running games or anything graphically intensive, I would just upgrade the whole shebang.
Fast forward to last night when I got all the parts, and started throwing it together. After hooking up my SATA drives, I realized there's no IDE port for my one HDD. QQ.

The issue is all my MP3s and photos, and my other pretty much unrecoverable stuff is on that HDD. What would be the best way to get that off of the old HDD and onto one of the newer ones, without re-assembling the old computer in the same case and all that?

Figgy

You could get an IDE to SATA adapter.

L Ron Howard

They make such a thing?

mindspork

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119244

IDE/SATA to USB adapter. Plug 'er up and it'll work like a standard external HD.

Underwhelming

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002

shutz

I would get an external enclosure that would let you use the old drive as an external USB hard drive. Enclosures are cheap, and you get to keep using that drive for extra storage, after you're done moving all your important files over to the new computer.

Whenever I upgrade a hard drive on one of my computers, I get an enclosure to keep using the old drive. You can never have too much storage.

Figgy

shutz wrote:

I would get an external enclosure that would let you use the old drive as an external USB hard drive. Enclosures are cheap, and you get to keep using that drive for extra storage, after you're done moving all your important files over to the new computer.

Whenever I upgrade a hard drive on one of my computers, I get an enclosure to keep using the old drive. You can never have too much storage.

I disagree with this. With how cheap non-SSHDs are these days, it doesn't make sense to use old drives that could very well go kaput at any moment. This goes even more-so if you're using an old drive as a back up drive.

And if that drive is IDE, that's several years old.

L Ron Howard

I've actually gone with @Figgy's suggestion. I got a fairly cheap ($13) thing that I attach to the end of the HDD. I then plug the SATA cable and Molex power into it, and it's good to go. My mobo reads it just fine and I've had no issues. Thanks for all the suggestions.

bobmyknob

Figgy wrote:

shutz wrote:

I would get an external enclosure that would let you use the old drive as an external USB hard drive. Enclosures are cheap, and you get to keep using that drive for extra storage, after you're done moving all your important files over to the new computer.

Whenever I upgrade a hard drive on one of my computers, I get an enclosure to keep using the old drive. You can never have too much storage.

I disagree with this. With how cheap non-SSHDs are these days, it doesn't make sense to use old drives that could very well go kaput at any moment. This goes even more-so if you're using an old drive as a back up drive.

And if that drive is IDE, that's several years old.

Hard drives aren't very cheap right now due to the flood last year in Thailand, so I know that most people are trying to avoid buying new drives if they don't have to at the moment. Prices have doubled in most cases.

Djeet

Depends upon the timeline you're looking at. Hard drive pricing is nearly twice what it was in October of last year, so we're at about the hdd storage pricing of about 2 years ago, which is still really cheap. I wouldn't be using an IDE for backup since it's likely at least 4-5 years old.