External Hard Drive Adapter Thing

[Chris]

I just had a thought. I got a bunch of old PCs in quasi working order in a closet. I'd like to go through their harddrives and see if there is any old data I could salvage, but I don't think I could get them all booted up again. Has anyone seen like an external harddrive dock that you can just plug an IDE hd into?

[s2kinteg916]

You can buy a usb external hard drive enclosure....

[Westech]

I always just get one junker working and connected to the network, then leave the case off and the drive cables dangling out so I can keep switching out the secondary HD and copying the data to another PC.

[Todd W]

I've gotten a longer than normal IDE cable and run it through the front 5.25" bay, most of hte time I have a power extension but you may need one of those too.

[AndyH]

External hard drive bay. I've got one - works well.