external hard drive

[Derek Trotter]

Head over to Fry's.  They have USB 2 and 3 add on cards.  USB 3 is 
backwards compatible with USB 2.

On 11/19/2011 16:26, Michael Havens 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 
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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?
>
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>     On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com
>     <mailto:jd at twingeckos.com>> wrote:
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>         Some OS's don't boot well from an external drive but Linux
>         does just fine.
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>         On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 15:41, Michael Havens
>         <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             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?
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>             On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Michael Havens
>             <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>                 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?
>
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>                 On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Michael Havens
>                 <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>                     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"?
>
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>                     On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael Havens
>                     <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>                         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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