Technical Question about Hard Drives

[Gus The Dagger]

I have a hard drive from the laptop and I want to use it on my desktop PC, will this thing from eBay help me? The thing is called USB 2.0 2.5" Hard Disk Drive External Enclosure/Case HD

Thanks,

-Alex

[InHouston]

The enclosure requires a standard IDE drive and cable that is typically found in desktop PC's. You may not want to spend your money on that. Typically hard drives found in laptops are designed to run in that laptop and are not neccessarily open-standard architecture like desktop drives.

[Vicki Richter]

I have a hard drive from the laptop and I want to use it on my desktop PC, will this thing from eBay help me? The thing is called USB 2.0 2.5" Hard Disk Drive External Enclosure/Case HD

Thanks,

-Alex

Unlike the other guy, I am sure this will work. USB is a universal interface. All the logic is on the controller card inside the enclosure. So basically it is this simple. Get the enclosure. Install your 2.5" drive, plug in the USB. Your PC will read the drive. Keep in mind it will be a secondary drive just like a memory stick, not a primary unless your motherboard supports the "boot from USB" feature.

Vicki

[Darren]

Vickie's right, unless you specifically set your BIOS to boot from USB, it's a secondary drive.

And keep in mind, you'll probably have to re-build windows due to drivers, HAL, etc. So settings, programs, files, etc. will be lost.

/is this a TS hard drive? so many possible puns, so little time
//I'm a computer guy, that's my job
///It's not Valentines Day, it's Singles Awareness Day

[Gus The Dagger]

Great, I just measured the hard drive and it seems to be 2 and 3/4 inches wide. Is it same as 2.5?

[Gus The Dagger]

Its not a TS hard drive but it will hold 250,000+ pictures of Tgirls and videos. Plus otehr stuff of my that I need to keep.

[Gus The Dagger]

Great, thanks for the info. The HD is 40 Gigs, I think its enought to store all the extra files.

[Darren]

Hope it works, good luck. Now you can put all those pics and vids on a disk, take it with you, and not worry about people finding it. j/k!

Let me know if you run into any problems with it.

[Gus The Dagger]

I also had another idea for a use for my 2.5 HD. You know all those "Digital Wallets" for the digital cameras? Basicly it has a hard drive, a screen, a controler and a memory card reader inside + batteries. I think that these digi-wallets use the 2.5 HDs inside, so my idea is to buy one of these digi-wallets and swap the HD.

[Vicki Richter]

This creates an interesting question...

How do you guys hide your porn/transsexual porn from your wives and girlfriends? First, wives commonly are more clever than you give them credit for. I got an IM from a guy I used to hot chat with... well it was his girlfriend telling me he was crazy and not to respond to his IM's. I also have a girlfriend who found pictures of naked guys on her ex-bf's computer. She never told him she found his stache though.

I've had concerned wives email me after they found my pictures with my web url or my site in the browser history.

All I am saying is hide your porn and clear your browser history. Very curious about all of your sneaky methods. Also consider using XP security and/or locking files, drives, or directories.

Oh a friend of mine hides his porn in password protected zip files.