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Backup USB hard drive--external or enclosure?
Anna myn...@myisp.net microsoft public windowsxp hardware On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:12:29 -0500, "Anna" <myn...@myisp.net> wrote: Albert: Can we assume that when you refer to a "USB hard drive docking station" you're referring to a typical run-of-the-mill >>USB external enclosure? Assuming that is the case...while

USB 2.0 external hard drives
The USB will not recognize any external pata device, be it hard drive or optical. The usb works fine with everything else (keyboard, mouse cam, etc.) Do I need any special driver or bios tweek to make it work with pata drives? TIA PATA drive in a proper USB hard drive enclosure? If yes, re-read the instructions

USB external hard drive???
They can be problematic with pre-2000 Windows or Mac operating systems that don't have native support for the USB mass-storage and so in those cases the manufacturers will provide drivers of varying quality. In the case of Linux, it's easier to upgrade the OS. You'll rarely see any device marked as Linux compatible

USB external Drive Enclosure
Joe Public aah...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware New laptop with XP Pro, USB 2 connectors I bought an external USB hard drive enclosure so that I could use the 10Gb IBM travelstar from my old laptop to transfer files. When I connect to the new laptop the usb mass storage device is detected but I

USB hard drive docking station
I'm using a 3.5" hard drive. perhaps its the adapter for the 2.5" drive that is giving you problems. Dave "Joe Public" <aah...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3f028bac.0211250448.1087c910@posting.google.com... New laptop with XP Pro, USB 2 connectors I bought an external USB hard drive enclosure so that I could

USB External Hard Drive Enclosures
I have had such bad luck with printers, etc since purchasing this laptop with Vista-anyone have suggestions on which brand of ext. hard drive to purchase that will work with Vista? Thanks so much! 2. An external drive is nothing more than a standard EIDE drive mounted in an external USB enclosure.

separate partition for VMs?
Both include the power supply, a usb ab cable, and driver CD (both will fall back to USB 1.1 if no usb 2.0 connection is available) The first is a 3.5" single bay enclosure, and as such you can only put a IDE hard drive in it. It's an all metal case, with internal fan, and external power supply.

USB hard drive docking station
Thomas Rollins tho...@optix.net ott forsale computing I am selling 4 USB external Hard Drive Enclosures (you put a normal 3.5" Hard Drive in one to make it an USB external Hard Drive, great fun!) Brand New in Retail Box Your Mobile Storage Solution ME-720 USB2.0 Slim 3.5" IDE Box "Anti-Shock Design" w/Fan-Best

OT-USB hard drive docking station
For a backup USB hard drive, is it usually best to just buy an external hard drive or to buy a USB hard drive enclosure and install an internal HD into it? This is never any 'best', it depends on your capabilitys. What are pros and cons of each? Buying the separately allows you to pick the best of both bits.

USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosures and BING?
wrote All I need to do now is order one of those USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosures. Sure sounds like a really good solution Yes and no - the downside of IDE/S-ATA via USB is no SMART and thus no temperature monitoring. Couple that with tight fanless housings, and you can guess the rest.

WTD : External 3.5" USB hard drive enclosure
I am selling 4 USB external Hard Drive Enclosures (you put a normal 3.5" Hard Drive in one to make it an USB external Hard Drive, great fun!) Brand New in Retail Box Your Mobile Storage Solution ME-720 USB2.0 Slim 3.5" IDE Box "Anti-Shock Design" w/Fan-Best Cooling Designed 3.5" Portable External HDD Enclosure Case

Hard drive enclosures USB or FW?
I have a couple of hard drives laying around which I want to make some use of. I was searching around for USB hard drive enclosures and wonder if anyone here uses them and if they are all the same or some are better than others? I'm looking to house 3.5" drives. I looked at Belkin, ADS, and a couple others but they

OT: External enclosures advice
It simply becomes a removable hard drive, much like a flash drive. Tom Tom, I think I'm going to order the USB hard drive enclosure and that will take about a week or so, in the meantime I think I'm going to try to reinstall the old hard drive while disconnecting the secondary drive and see if it will boot.

3.5" Hard Drive USB External Enclosures
Anna myn...@myisp.net microsoft public windowsxp hardware (GMAN responding to my comment that in our experience a USB external HDD is not bootable in an XP I have a bootable USB hard drive enclosure that i regularly boot a copy of XP on for testing purposes. If the Bios supports booting from a USB device,

Question on External USB 2.0 hard drive enclosures.
drives on the motherboard. there may not be room to install the drive in the box, but you can run it with the case off without hurting anything. An additional drive cable will be a _whole_ lot less expensive than an external drive enclosure. :) Bottom line; I replace the new primary hard drive with the old one and

USB hard drive docking station
Cheers j;-j "j...@eclipse-online.com" wrote: I have a Bytecc external USB hard drive enclosure and a 320GB Western Digital IDE hard drive connected to each other and then connected to a workstation via USB. The OS is XP Pro and I am having a strange problem. At times the drive works fine and shows the files as a

USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosures and BING?
Do you know something I could buy that would connect to my small laptop hard drive and allow me to mount it as an external hard disk? I found enclosures that come with an interface for IDE 3.5" sized HDs and connect via USB but nothing for these small laptop HDs - they're about the size of the palm on the hand and

External USB hard drive enclosure
Can anyone tell me where I can get an external USB hard drive enclosure for a Windows 98 PC? I already have a 3.5" 9 GIG drive. I just need the USB external enclosure for it. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks...Jeff jwoe...@fast.net I am assuming this drive is SCSI? If it is IDE then I don't know how you would

External USB Hard Drive Problems
Hello I wondering if anyones know were i can buy a USB External Hard Drive Enclosures that houses a normal IDE hard drive that connects to the USB port.in the UK, loads of USA site have them but they don't delviere to the UK. and theres loads with hard drives in them, i want one that is empty so that i can put my

USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosures and BING?
For a backup USB hard drive, is it usually best to just buy an external hard drive or to buy a USB hard drive enclosure and install an internal HD into it? What are pros and cons of each? Thanks. RD i got me an enclosure, and as 5,25 enclosures are just as expensive as 3,5 ones, i bought a 5,25 and installed some