On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

mobo is IDE.... I'm stuck in the 90s! I use peoples refuse computers. I got a free computer from one pugger and a free monitor from another. I'm what you call a 'sorry S.O.B. But I'm laughing about it all the time. Not really but I need to krrp my chin up somehow!

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
Yes, be sure you bios allow for booting from USB.

All in all, I would not get an external USB hard drive. The bus speed is important, doncha think?

USB is not fast!

Just go get a SATA drive? Order one online. But first be sure you have a SATA capable mobo?

JD is right, the USB2 card or sata dock would be required.

How about a SSD drive? They are quite a bit faster? (Internal)?

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:

Add a USB2 card and get either a sata dock (you'll want to put a fan on it)
or get a hotswap drive bay.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 16:26, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
One more thing.... I don't think I have USB 2.0

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks, JD. Do you know the terms I need to enter into google to find what I'm looking for? What I want is an external housing for a single hard disk drive (maybe two) in which it is possible to swap out drives w/o unscrewing things. Maybe I would be better off getting a standard EHD?

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
Some OS's don't boot well from an external drive but Linux does just fine.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 15:41, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I was just looking at my startup devices menu and the first in line is 'Removable devices.' Does an external hard drive not count for that?

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

hmmmm.... I just went into office max (the best thing we have for a computer store in cottonwood) and the computer guy there said that you can't boot off of an External hard Drive. Well, another option I have (if that is true), is to copy the live CD onto the ED then to boot off of a flash drive and on the FD tell it the information is on the ED. I know this is possible because I had a linux friend doing something similar to this. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm doing my research to find one of these online and I am unsure of the search terms. What exactly should I enter to find one in which I can insert and remove standard desktop hard drives? Would it be 5.25" enclosure or 3.5"?

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
As you all know my hard drive is no more and all of my spares are kaput as well. I was thinking that instead of an internal hard drive I would get an external one. Then, I could always have my computer with me:!) I have a NetVista computer. Do any of you know if I will have a problem booting from an external hard drive? When I initialy boot and press F-12 it goes into boot media order and says that removable media is in the boot order so I suppose it's all good. What do you think?

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