You can safely use your 3.0 external hard drive with your 2007 HP laptop. However, data transfer will be slow as you will not be able to utilize the 3.0 speed.
You can use your laptop to back uup your hard drive but your USB is not the thing getting backed up.
Through USB connect them.
Assuming your Compaq laptop has a USB port or two, just plug in the new drive with the USB cable. It will show up as another drive, using the first available drive letter, in Windows Explorer (or equivalent).
I would recommend buying a USB hard drive enclosure that will fit your harddrive.
Hook up a USB cable from the system to your hard drive or laptop.
You can an external USB drive or replace your old hard drive with a bigger new one.
You Plug a USB mouse into a USB Drive in the laptop, and now you can use your usb mouse with your laptop for anything.
You'll have to remove the hard drive from the laptop and connect it to another working computer, laptop or desktop PC. You can use IDE adapter for laptop hard drives - for connecting it to a desktop computer. You can use external USB enclosure for laptop hard drives for connecting it either to a desktop or laptop computer. You'll find instructions for removing the hard drive in Dell service manuals, they are available for download from the Dell website. Follow links for more information about IDE adapter and external USB enclosure.
Yes. You can get an external hard drive case and put the hard drive in that to convert it to an external USB hard disk.Your laptop would have had a 2.5 inch hard disk. Make sure you find an external hard drive case which accepts laptop-sized 2.5 inch hard disk. Also you must keep in mind what type of interface your hard disk uses. If it is SATA, you will need a case which supports it, as opposed to regular ATA-100 (now being called PATA).Put your laptop's old hard disk into that external hard drive case & bingo, its now an external USB disk that you can plug into any computer! Another answer Alternatively, you can purchase a USB to IDE cable and temporarily connect the drive to a desktop computer to retrieve your files.
Using a floppy disk or a USB drive. If the laptop has USB, several kinds of drives can be attached to it (hard drive, CD, USB stick...). If it can access a network, software may be downloaded.
you can use it in an external enclosure that connects to the laptop using either USB, firewire, etc. However, you will never have enough room to install a genuine hard disk inside a decent laptop case.
UPDATE: do you all think this would work to connect the external hard drive to a router that doesn't have a USB port (like the one i have) http://www.walmart.com/ip/TRENDnet-TU-ET100C-USB-to-Fast-Ethernet-Adapter/13214825?wmlspartner=GPA&sourceid=44444444440281732250