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USB External Hard Drive
HDD's in an external enclosure should always be Master regardless of what any other drives are. -- Kenny Cargill <j...@eclipse-online.com> wrote in message news:1168017517.251569.307260@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com... I have a Bytecc external USB hard drive enclosure and a 320GB Western Digital IDE hard drive

ports/116210: NexStar3 external usb hard drive enclosure will ...
I've cloned dozens of internal hard drives to a variety of USB (both 1.1 & 2.0) external hard drives without any problems. By & large I use "no-name" USB external hard drive enclosures and install a hard drive in the enclosure. You can purchase these enclosures from a variety of sources on the net for not much more

Re. external hard drive enclosure.
Mike Dresser mdresse...@windsormachine.com linux debian user I'm rather bored with the whole process of having to shut the machine off to put a hard drive in it to copy data off the workstation, and would like to put a 120 or so gig drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure. Anyone have some recommendations on who to buy and

Backup USB hard drive--external or enclosure?
Another one is FireWire Depot (http://www.fwdepot.com), which sells Firewire enclosures or Firewire/USB enclosures, for desktop hard drives and laptop hard drives. The laptop hard drive enclosures do not require external power supply, except for connection by a Cardbus card.

USB Hard drive enclosures?
2) How can I check the USB port version? My laptop is a Dell Latitude Pentium III 700 Mhz, but I can't find the information on Dell's website? 3) What would be the cheapest solution: 2.5'' hard drive or 3.5'' drive? * enclosure for 2.5'' HDD: cheaper than the other one, but HDD likely to be more expensive (I am

Backup USB hard drive--external or enclosure?
Hi Anyone use external USB HD in video production? Good, bad? ... firewire800 - a tad faster than USB2 <g> g, (or is that a grin?) How have you TESTED that assertion? There apprear to be many variants of both 1394 and hard drive speeds so that in many cases USB2 is FASTER than 1394(firewire).

OT-USB hard drive docking station
What I'm wondering is whether or not there is anything that would prevent one of these "USB External HD Enclosures" from being used in a *partition copy* operation (in BING) for my internal IDE HD boot drive, out thru the USB port, to one of these "enclosures" (which would have a backup IDE HD drive inside of it,

External USB Hard drive
The 'i' icon is against the hard drive device listing, not the enclosure. Also, is this a new unpartitioned and unformatted hard drive? If it is, use Disk Manager to Make sure you have enough power available at the USB port to operate the drive, unless you're using external power. That's all I can think of for

Which external hard drive?
Cliff Hewitt some...@att.net.nospam alt os linux mandrake Jim wrote: Doing Google research regarding external hard drive enclosures. Seems they have some form of controller that can be problematic with various OS's. I was under the impression these were simply boxes with wiring adapters like the removable RAID

External USB Enclosure for 2.5" hard disk
TheMartian m...@privacy.net comp sys ibm pc hardware storage rec video desktop rec video production druid3 wrote: I'm interested in hearing from people who have external hard drive enclosures. Are you having any heat related problems such as drives getting corrupt after prolonged usage or outright dying?

Backup USB hard drive--external or enclosure?
Albert 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 it's probably desirable for you to have a USB enclosure (they're cheap enough nowadays) so as to install a HDD in that

External Hard Drive used for System Backup.
TG wrote: I just purchase an External USB hard drive enclosure and two 250GB drives. I tried both drives in the enclosure (one at a time obviously) but both show the size as 2048GB under diskmanagement. When I format it says the task did not complete successfully. Either quick or long format.

USB hard drive enclosure, no Vista drivers
What I would like to do is get a USB hard drive docking station in order to check out the old hard drive. Although I had Norton Ghost and a carbon copy on my secondary drive I was unable to access it and it was An additional drive cable will be a _whole_ lot less expensive than an external drive enclosure. :)

External Firewire hard drive enclosures?
I didn't know about the enclosure though. I think you can find them supporting both USB 2 and Firewire these days. The IBM card doesn't support power. ohaya have an IBM F/W PCMCIA card too, which comes with both a 6-4 pin and 6-6 pin cable, which I guess (I don't have these) would power the drive from the laptop?

FS: External USB Hard Drive Enclosure
Hard drive enclosure for standard 3.5" hard drive Take your hard drive, stick it in the enclosure, plug it in to the wall outlet and your computer, and you have cheap, portable storage. Works to at least 80gb, should be able to go higher, cant find support website at the moment. $30 reply to bookem_dano at hotmail

external usb hard drive enclosure
In target mode, the computer acts like an external hard drive for the connected computer, so you can use the free space on its drive for anything you like, If you can afford it, a dual USB/Firewire enclosure gives you slightly more options, in case you want to connect the drive to a computer which doesn't have

USB Hard Drive enclosure for Laptop - questions
What I would like to do is get a USB hard drive docking station in order to check out the old hard drive. Although I had Norton Ghost and a carbon copy on my Albert Albert, Why don't you just get a USB drive enclosure and install your drive in it? If your pc is a desktop, then you would need a 3.5" enclosure.

External USB hard drive enclosure
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, you can most certainly do it. GMAN: I am glad to hear that you're able to boot to an XP OS while such is contained in a USB external HDD enclosure.

Trouble Using USB Hard Drive Enclosure in Win98
Paul erickso...@yahoo.com austin forsale tx forsale For sale in Austin: CompUSA brand USB 2.0 2.5" aluminum external hard drive enclosures I have a few of these.. You can use a 2.5" (laptop size) hard drive in these to make a compact external USB hard drive. Brand new in box, never used. Works with PC and MAC USB

Question on External USB 2.0 hard drive enclosures.
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 to making a perfect partition copy, without doing it the way I'm swapping in and out those IDE connectors and HDs. Yes and no - the downside of IDE/S-ATA via USB is no SMART and thus no