external hard drive

[Michael Havens]

One more thing.... I don't think I have USB 2.0

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at 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 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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