I believe that you can buy a SATA compatible external enclosure for your current drive. It should work just like any other USB device.
Walter Hamler wrote: > Speaking of new computers.... My house and studio took a major lighting > strike on Thurs. A lot of physical damage to the studio, blown out rear > wall, large hole in concrete slab, charred areas all over. The stereo that > was plugged in looks like a stick of dynamite went off inside! > In the house, I lost all the phones and lines, internet and cable tv system. > My desktop computer lost the monitor and Ethernet portion of the > motherboard. I have tried installing a separate 10/100 card but the computer > won't load drivers for some reason. > Anyway, if I cannot get the internet working on the desktop, there is no > sense in replacing the monitor, so I will canabalize it and get a new > computer. > My question is, is it feasible to buy one of those external enclosures to > make an external HD using the sata drive that is in the old computer? Since > it is a sata drive, I was hoping that if I could enclose it and hook it to > either a desktop or my laptop, it might be a good external drive. If not, I > can always put it in the new computer as an extra drive. > > Walt > > > -- Remember, it’s pillage then burn. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
