external hard drive

[Michael Havens]

mobo is IDE.... I'm stuck in the 90s! I use peoples refuse computers. I got
a free computer from one pugger and a free monitor from another. I'm what
you call a 'sorry S.O.B. But I'm laughing about it all the time. Not really
but I need to krrp my chin up somehow!

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Yes, be sure you bios allow for booting from USB.
>
> All in all, I would not get an external USB hard drive.  The bus speed is
> important, doncha think?
>
> USB is not fast!
>
> Just go get a SATA drive?  Order one online.  But first be sure you have a
> SATA capable mobo?
>
> JD is right, the USB2 card or sata dock would be required.
>
> How about a SSD drive?  They are quite a bit faster?  (Internal)?
>
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> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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