There are several ways to repurpose old hard drives ... the steps correctly, your hard drive will appear inside File Explorer, and you can start using it as an external storage drive.

[Profezzorn] designed some mounting brackets to house a file server inside of an external ... optical drive. It comes with a USB to SATA converter which is how he connects the hard drive to ...

Call it OCD or something else, but I like to offload any data that I can to my 2TB external hard drive. Earlier, the only files I stored on it were old photos and videos dating back to my school years ...

Stop deleting files here and there to carve out space and just pick up a new drive for all your files. Whether you prefer an old-school capacious hard drive ... Western Digital 1TB WD Blue ...