internal hard drive to external one

[peterr]

After the job is nearly done, do you format or create a new simple volume.

 

[Rustys]

Can you be more specific?

What job?

 

[peterr]

As the title implies, "Converting an internal hard drive to an external hard drive!"

 

[plodr]

You don't convert.
Do you want to clone, image or backup the internal hard drive?

What are you planning to do with the external hard drive? Keep it for an emergency, swap the internal for the external or something else?

 

[peterr]

I have an internal HDD and I want to put it inside an enclosure so I will have an external HDD where I can back up information..
This will give me a portable hard drive .

 

[peterr]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhx2w9JpNrQ

All of the videos refer to this as converting. Why the nit picking?

 

[IJAC]

You create a new simple volume using the whole drive or partition it whatever way you want.Then you format it to the correct file system you want.For windows you usually want to format it NTFS.I hope that helps clear it up for you.

 

[Rustys]

Why the nit picking?

With out the proper information we can not properly advise you.

I could of told you to GPT that drive and it would of never worked on some systems.

Could of told you to put an EXT4 format on the HDD and it may not have worked for your needs.