3.5" WD Blue as external?

[DarkEnergy]

Ok, so I'm using an old computer because I'm waiting for my main mobo to be fixed. I thought I had this game on another hard drive but it turns out it was on the 7200 rpm 3.5" blue drive still in my main rig's case. Would USB 2.0 have enough power to run this so I can copy the game over to a laptop? 

 

[scottyseng]

4 minutes ago, DarkEnergy said:

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No, it would not have enough power. You need to power the SATA power cable with something. The proper way would be to get a proper external closure, or to ghetto rig the drive to power from your PC's power and have the USB end on the laptop. I have to admit, I've never seen a SATA to USB cable like that though.

[DarkEnergy]

2 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

No, it would not have enough power. You need to power the SATA power cable with something. The proper way would be to get a proper external closure, or to ghetto rig the drive to power from your PC's power and have the USB end on the laptop. I have to admit, I've never seen a SATA to USB cable like that though.

It's a sata cable from an external hard drive I used to have that broke. I salvaged it. It's come in handy very often. It was from a mechanical drive and it was both power and USB, albeit, a 2.5" flat HDD.