external hard drive

[JD Austin]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

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