3.6. How to connect an ADSL modem ADSL modems are connected to the socket network adapter, it is usually located next to

How to connect an external monitor? Almost any netbook is equipped with a VGA port for connecting an external monitor. You can connect not only a computer monitor to this port, but also a projector or a modern television panel equipped with a standard “computer”

How to connect a network printer? If when creating or setting up home group If the Printers checkbox is checked, printers connected to this computer become accessible over the network. Network computers usually detect and connect available printers

How to connect and configure a USB modem? The USB modem comes with a disk with a driver and a setup utility. On any computer equipped with a DVD drive, copy the files from that drive to a flash drive. Connect the flash drive with the utility to the netbook. If the installer does not

How to connect a phone to a netbook? Let's take a connection as an example: Nokia phone series 6003. It contains a memory card on which the manufacturer recorded the distribution package of the Ovi Suite program. The phone comes with a proprietary USB cable. Connect the cable to the phone

How to connect a Bluetooth mouse? Via Bluetooth you can connect to a netbook various devices with support for this technology: mouse, headphones, printer, etc. You just need to make the device discoverable and pair it. Bluetooth may be included with the mouse USB adapter. If

6.4. Windows 7 does not recognize my DVD drive If you installed Windows 7 and it does not recognize your DVD drive and the DVD drive is checked yellow triangle in the Device Manager list, this means that Windows cannot control digital signatures DVD drive driver. The problem can be solved

Optical drive An optical drive is a device for working with optical media information. Can be located outside the laptop, connecting to it directly via USB (if the drive simply does not fit due to its modest size mobile computer, there are options in the BIOS

CD and DVD drive Today, most laptops are equipped with universal drives that can work with both CDs and DVDs. The drives differ slightly in cost, so installing obsolete models in laptops

Probably, some time ago, such a device as external disk drives could have puzzled a computer scientist a lot. Indeed, often the very presence of a CD drive inside the PC case automatically made this device“elite”: not everyone could afford it.

However, time did not stand still. Pretty soon disk drives for laser discs have become commonplace. And then external disk drives appeared on the scene.

External disk drive - what is it?

Probably, even without any definitions, many understand that external drive A gadfly is a compact device designed to work (read and write) with all kinds of disks, which connects to a computer through one of its ports.

The device is called external precisely because it is located not inside the system unit, but outside. That is, you can simply take and disconnect an external drive at any time, connect it to another computer or drive, or take it with you on the road or anywhere else.

When might an external drive be needed?

There are many situations when such a drive may be needed, or even when you cannot do without it.

For example, for a netbook. For the sake of compactness, netbook manufacturers did not place a laser disk drive in the case. So the user lost the opportunity to work with such disks. And things would have been really bad if it weren’t for the external CD drive. It simply connects to the device via a USB port - and you can start working with laser discs. Therefore most often external drives purchased in conjunction with a netbook.

An external drive may also be needed if the main drive on the device fails. Or if you need to quickly rewrite information from one laser disk to another without first transferring the data to the hard drive (many will probably remember the once common two-cassette players).

In short, there are simply too many different situations when you might need an external drive for your computer.

What types of external drives are there?

External drives can be classified in different ways: depending on the connection port, on the ability or impossibility of recording, by the method of power supply, by the types of discs readable, and by other characteristics.

However, external drives are most often divided into:

• CD drives are those that can only read and write CD blanks (they are practically never found these days);
• DVD drives are the most common type of drive that “sees” both CDs and DVDs;
• Blu-Ray – accordingly, in addition to CDs and DVDs, such devices can also work with Blu-Ray discs;
• writing and non-writing - those that can not only read, but also write information to a disk, or only read (the latter are also practically not used today);
• powered via USB and via an external power supply.

Are there laptop-only or desktop-only models? No, there are no such things. External drives are universal; they work equally well on netbooks, laptops, and paired with a desktop computer.

Pros of external drives

Of course, an external drive has a number of advantages, both as a standalone device and over its built-in “colleague”.

• External devices for working with disks can be simply disconnected from the computer at any time and, for example, given to a friend. In order to perform such a trick with the built-in drive, you will need to disassemble the system unit or laptop case.
• An external drive will help out if the main drive on the device breaks down.
• It will help you work with disks even on devices where such drives are simply not structurally provided. For example, recently external disk drives have appeared for tablets.
• External drives are compact, easy to connect, and easy to replace.

Disadvantages of external drives

But, as always, there were some downsides:

• Speed ​​is key weak point any external drive. Whatever one may say, the USB port is still slower than the internal system ports.
• Often an external drive for a laptop requires a separate power supply. Moreover, it can be carried out either via USB or through a regular outlet. Low-quality power supplies burn out quickly, but it is almost impossible to find another exactly the same one - it’s easier to just buy another drive.
• An external drive is more expensive than its built-in counterpart.

How to connect an external drive

Fortunately, there is nothing difficult about how to connect an external drive. Typically, all that is required is to plug the USB cable into the appropriate connector on the computer and the power supply plug into the outlet.

If necessary, you can also install additional software and drivers. But often you don’t have to do this - the system simply recognizes the device as a new drive and works with it quite correctly using standard tools.

How to choose a removable drive

When choosing an external drive, you need to take into account the following points:

• If your computer has a USB 2.0 port, then you need to purchase just such a drive. The reading and writing process will be much more vigorous.
• If possible, you should choose a model powered by both USB and a wall outlet. If the power supply burns out, the device can be powered directly from the computer. In addition, such external drives will allow you to work in offline mode. For example, on the road with a netbook.
• If possible, the drive should read and write to most common disc formats. For the sake of versatility, you can neglect other minor functions, which are most often used only a couple of times during the entire time and then only out of curiosity.
• The appearance of the drive also plays a role. Beautiful device It looks stylish on the table and will attract a lot of curious glances.
• As for speed, there is no need to purchase the highest speed ones. Standard 52 speeds are enough for all occasions. Moreover, recording at high speeds often occurs incorrectly. And the drive motor itself can quickly fail if you overuse it too often at high speeds.

Regarding the manufacturer, there are no clear recommendations here. In principle, all companies today produce external drives of good quality. Every company has both successful and not so successful models. But you won’t find frankly bad ones today.

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I had it lying around for a long time The SATA DVD drive from the laptop, so as not to gather dust, I decided to use it somehow, namely, connect it to my home PC. Connecting SATA drives is easier than IDE drives. But IDE drives can also be connected to a PC, but it’s a pain to connect a double-row connector there.

Drive photo:

Laptop drives operate on 5 volts...

On the left is the power connector, on the right is the SATA connector

We open the drive and connect the wires as shown in the figure below, the positive and negative terminals can be paired (duplicated), i.e. may have two contacts.

Connect the cables to the computer and check the operation of the drive

Everything seems to be working!

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How to connect a hard drive from a laptop to a laptop with your own hands

Good day!

I think those who often work on a laptop have sometimes found themselves in a similar situation: you need to copy a lot of files from hard drive laptop to hard drive desktop computer. How to do this?

Option 1. Just connect your laptop and computer and transfer files. True, if the speed on your network is not high, then this method will take a lot of time (especially if you need to copy several hundred gigabytes).

Option 2. Remove the hard drive (hdd) from the laptop and then connect it to the computer. All information from the hdd can be copied very quickly (on the downside: you need to spend 5-10 minutes connecting).

Option 3. Buy a special “container” (box) into which you can insert laptop hdd, and then connect this box to the USB port of any PC or other laptop.

Let's take a closer look at the last couple of options...

1) Connecting a hard drive (2.5-inch hdd) from a laptop to a computer

Well, the first thing you need to do is remove the hard drive from the laptop case (you will most likely need a screwdriver, depending on your device model).

You must first turn off the power to the laptop and then remove the battery (green arrow in the photo below). The yellow arrows in the photo mark the fastening of the cover, behind which the hard drive is located.

Laptop Acer Aspire.

After removing the cover, remove the hard drive from the laptop case (see green arrow in the photo below).

Acer Aspire laptop: Western Digital Blue 500 GB hard drive.

IDE - old interface for connecting hard disk. Provides connection speed of 133 MB/s. Nowadays it is becoming less and less common, I think there is no point in considering it in this article...

Hard drive with IDE interface.

SATA I, II, III - new interface hdd connections(provides speeds of 150, 300, 600 MB/s, respectively). Key points related to SATA, from the point of view of the average user:

There are no jumpers that were previously on the IDE (which means the hard drive cannot be “wrongly” connected);

More high speed work;

Full compatibility with each other different versions SATA: you don’t have to worry about conflicts between different equipment; the drive will work on any PC, no matter what version of SATA it’s connected through.

HDD Seagate Barracuda 2 TB with SATA III support.

So, in a modern system unit, the drive and hard drive should be connected via SATA interface. For example, in my example, I decided to connect a laptop hard drive instead of a CD-ROM.

System unit. You can connect a hard drive from a laptop, for example, instead of a drive (CD-Rom).

Actually, all that remains is to disconnect the wires from the drive and connect the laptop’s hdd to them. Then it’s trivial to turn on the computer and copy all the necessary information.

Connected hdd 2.5 to the computer...

In the photo below you can note that the disk is now displayed in “my computer” - i.e. you can work with it as with a regular local disk (sorry for the tautology).

A connected 2.5-inch hdd from a laptop is displayed in “my computer” as the most common one local disk.

By the way, if you want to leave the disk permanently connected to the PC, then you need to secure it. To do this, it is best to use special “sleds” that allow you to secure 2.5-inch drives (from laptops; smaller in size compared to 3.5-inch computers) in bays from regular hdds. The photo below shows similar “sleds”.

Slides from 2.5 to 3.5 (metal).

2) Box (BOX) for connecting a laptop hdd to any device with USB

For users who don’t want to “mess around” with dragging disks back and forth, or, for example, want to get a portable and convenient external disk (from a leftover old laptop disk) - there are special devices on the market - “boxes” (BOX).

What is he like? A small container larger size the hard drive itself. It usually contains 1-2 USB port for connecting to PC (or laptop) ports. The box can be opened: the hdd is inserted inside and secured there. Some models, by the way, are equipped with a power supply.

Actually, that's all, after connecting the drive to the box, it closes and then you can use it together with the box, as if it were a regular external hard drive! The photo below shows a similar box from the Orico brand. In appearance it is practically no different from an external hdd.

Box for connecting 2.5-inch drives.

If you look at this box from the back, there is a lid, and behind it there is a special “pocket” into which the hard drive is inserted. Similar devices quite simple and very convenient.

Inside view: insert pocket hdd drive 2.5 inches.

About IDE drives There's probably no point in talking. To be honest, I haven’t worked with them for a long time, I don’t think anyone else actively uses them. I would be grateful if someone adds on this topic...

Good work hdd everyone!

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