external hard drive

[Dazed_75]

Mike, you do not want to boot from an ED on USB 1.1 which I think is all
you have on that old Net Vista machine.  Besides, if you buy an ED drive it
will probably cost more than an internal.

You don't need a very big one either.  20-40 GB 5.25" IDE drives are barely
worth anything used but are near impossible to find new for any decent
price (though Amazon seemed to have one for $42 plus shipping).  If you
were down here in the valley I could probably find one to give you.  You
might ask in that Linux group you found up there.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> No money! Unable to get there. No money!
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  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
>>
>> 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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