Connect to a internal hard-drive via USB

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: November 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Back in August of this year I bought a kit for connecting hard-drives to a computer via a USB cable. This is really useful especially if you are regularly fixing computers and need to get access to a hard-drive.

I have been using this a lot since I bought it. If you cannot access a hard-drive for reasons such as it is taking far too long to load the operating system or if the windows operating system has crashed and is no longer accessible then these cables will definitely be very useful.

In order to access these hard drives all you have to do is remove them from the laptop or pc and then add in the connector that is in the kit and then use the usb  and power cord to get into the hard drive, it’s that simple!

A lot of times people have issues where Windows has crashed and they think all of their data is gone! I have found that once the hard drive is taken out and connected to your computer via USB you can still browse through the files and save all the files that they think they lost :D .

When I bought this back in August it cost me €17.98, which is really cheap and I think is definitely worth the investment. Also these cables can be sued for a lot more than just hard drives, if you have an old internal disk drive you can use these cables to power up them too! This is really useful for Netbooks which have no disk drive.

For anyone looking to buy a set of these cables they are: USB to IDE & SATA Adaptor Cable 2.5 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

So what’s in the box?

• USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Adapter
• 2.0 Amp AC Power Adapter
• UK Mains Cable
• User Manual

And here are the features of the product, and it fits basically all hard drives! :

• Compatible with any 2.5", 3.5", 5.25" IDE or SATA drive!
• Dual Output Switch with LED Power ON Indicators
• Hot swappable and truly Plug and Play
• No driver needed
• Supports IDE & Enhanced IDE 3.5" Hard Disk
• Supports ATA/ATAPI-6 Specification 1.0
• Supports SATA I and SATA II

These cables are also compatible with both PC and Mac! I bought mine with the UK Mains adaptor, however these are available with other mains adaptors such as US mains. If the images are too smallm just click on them to see a larger version! :D

Update, what is to come…

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: November 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments

For some reason I have managed to get half way through the month of November without making a single blog post! I know I am prone to going long periods without a post however I usually try to have 1 post by the 1st or 2nd of a new month!

Anyway, what has been keeping me busy? Since it is the Christmas season, I am now swamped with work! I have virtually no weekends anymore :( , working late after the store closes to get everything back in order for the next day takes a long time, with tidying and restocking.

I have been enjoying playing around with Windows 7 since its release date and as I said I will try and get a post up with my thoughts of the new OS!

Over the next week I will be getting a lot of reviews up on this site. I have bought a lot of things over the past few weeks and have yet to make my reviews on them! So for everyday next week (16th - 22nd of November) I will be posting a review a day! I said I had a lot of reviews to do :D .

I may even through in an odd normal blog post if I get the time in between writing these reviews :) .

Now to turn the focus to my blog, and its design. I said a while back that I am still not happy with the look of it, I feel it is still a bit dark and that it could do with a bit of a speed tweak! I have settled with a new theme for the blog and now I need to just add some personal changes to the theme.

Getting it to fit with certain components that I have on my site currently such as flickr and making sure that It will not break if I add it to my site. When adding new themes to a site it can always cause problems mainly because they can conflict with some plugins.