OT: USB Drive enclosure help

[Eric Shubert]

I wouldn't use one of these for a long term connection, but for data 
recovery I expect it'd work fine. I'd give this a shot.

For long term use, I like and recommend Acomdata enclosures. I have 
several of them, and their customer support is tops. They even replaced 
a couple of power transformers for me that were past the warranty period 
(they were older style PATA enclosures). FWIW.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

On 12/14/2010 05:02 PM, Jim March wrote:
> Any USB2 drive enclosure will do.  As long as the old drive you're
> trying to pull data from is a SATA drive, you might want to consider
> this bad boy (or one like it at Fry's or whatever) as opposed to a
> traditional enclosure:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182196&cm_re=hard_drive_dock-_-17-182-196-_-Product
> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182196&cm_re=hard_drive_dock-_-17-182-196-_-Product>
>
> You basically plug in either a desktop or laptop size SATA drive in the
> top like it was toast going into a toaster...ummm...yeah, that SOUNDS
> like a bad analogy :) but they work great.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:50 PM, AZ Pete <subs2 at cactusfamily.com
> <mailto:subs2 at cactusfamily.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>
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