external hard drive

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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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