Hi All,
I have a friend who's laptop (Windows) died, but thinks the drive
should be ok. She bought a new MacBook and would like to copy her
data from the old laptop. My thought was to take the drive out of
the defunct laptop and put it in a USB enclosure which could then
be connected to the new Macbook.
Does anyone have any recommendations on USB drive enclosures
makes/models?
I'm very well versed with Windows and
Unix, but I'm not a Mac person. I'm assuming that this scenario
would work. Let me know if I'm missing something.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
Peter
1) Is this an IDE/SATA or SCSI drive?
2) Are you sure it was not part of a RAID (10 or 5) volume?
3) Drive Size? [Assuming this is NTFS? WindowsXP (not 3.11)]
I would just pop it out and head over to
Fry's and see what they have?
Open the packaging for the enclosures and verify fit, and compatibility (i.e. be sure your SCSI connection is not super mini for instance)?
I haven't used
Computercablesource.com site, but they have a good display of the many different drive enclosure types.
[NOTE: While firewire is fast, plug and play across platforms leaves something to be desired; stick with USB.]
Your drive enclosure choices are going to be limited by drive type; drive size - but anything USB is going to "work" with OS X (automagically).
Under linux you will have to mount it with a type switch command:
Plug her in: "dmesg" to get drive name: /dev/$name example= /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1 (first partition)
mkdir /mnt/NTFS
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/$name /mnt/NTFS
You should be able to read/write everything.
NOTE: If the drive contains low level virus, malware or trojan files, there would still be a risk of
cross platform infection.