"Your "powered HD to USB thingy" - what is that? "
When I put the new Solid State hard drive in the desk top I removed the old 'rotating' hard drive. The idea was to do a clean install on the new drive and then copy wanted files from the external old drive to the new without having to dismantle the machine a second time.
On 2.5 inch SATA drives this can be done with a simple SATA to USB cable. My old drive turned out to be a 3.5 inch drive and for those the cable has to be powered with 5 volts DC or it can't spin the disk. So I had to order a powered cable. You can do the same thing with the older IDE drives but that needs a different cable again.
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