Head over to Fry's. They have USB 2 and 3 add on cards. USB 3 is
backwards compatible with USB 2.
On 11/19/2011 16:26, Michael Havens 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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