When this is done, can you later add a case without the drive space becoming unallocated/unreadable? Basiclly will it cause you to lose all the data on the drive (or become a major PITA) to get the data back because of the "new" sata usb connector that comes with a new case.

FYI... The internal hard drive was converted into an external drive using a USB to SSD/SATA/IDE Universal Adapter.

Thanks

I'm sure I've done this plenty of times without any problems. Just get a simple caddy.

Some external enclosures are configured with a 4KB sector size. Transferring your internal HDD to one of these will render your data inaccessible, but it won't damage it.

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