Some of our customers want to recycle an old computer but have pictures or other info on their hard drive which they’d like to keep. It is easy to remove the hard drive, purchase an external drive caddy and access your old hard drive through your new computer. Here are some helpful links where you can learn how to do that:

REMOVE YOUR DRIVE FROM YOUR DESKTOP

REMOVING YOUR DESKTOP DRIVE PART 2

REMOVE YOUR DRIVE FROM YOUR LAPTOP

REMOVING YOUR LAPTOP DRIVE PART 2

MAKING AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

And once you remove it, here is how to set it up in an external drive caddy:

SETTING UP YOUR EXTERNAL CADDY

And here are some nice external drive caddy options:

CADDY FOR DESKTOPS

CADDY FOR LAPTOPS

And, just for fun, if you want to repurpose instead of recycle, things to do with your old laptop.