External USB Enclosure for HD

[Sam]

Today I did a Symantec Livestate Recovery Restore on a family members
computer that had a failing primary HD. Worked very well, took only about
fourteen minutes for the actual restore (from the second physical HD already
in the computer to the new primary HD). It took longer to change out the
HDs!! Thank goodness for image backups.

The old HD has some data files made in yesterdays operation that would be
desirable to recover. I realize that I could install the old drive as the
second physical HD on the computer, but hesitate to do this since it still
has an active partition. I would like to find an external USB HD enclosure
and connect the old HD to the computer by this method. Has anyone found any
good enclosures that they would recommend and if so, where was the unit
purchased? Thanks for any help, Sam.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Today I did a Symantec Livestate Recovery Restore on a family members
computer that had a failing primary HD. Worked very well, took only
about fourteen minutes for the actual restore (from the second
physical HD already in the computer to the new primary HD). It took
longer to change out the HDs!! Thank goodness for image backups.

The old HD has some data files made in yesterdays operation that
would be desirable to recover. I realize that I could install the
old drive as the second physical HD on the computer, but hesitate to
do this since it still has an active partition. I would like to find
an external USB HD enclosure and connect the old HD to the computer
by this method. Has anyone found any good enclosures that they would
recommend and if so, where was the unit purchased? Thanks for any
help, Sam.

Any decent computer shop should have IDE drive caddies you can connect via
USB, for about $20 or so, IIRC.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

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Any decent computer shop should have IDE drive caddies you can
connect via USB, for about $20 or so, IIRC.

.....and that said, I've just reread your post, and can't see any reason you
couldn't mount this drive up as a slave in this or in another system,
instead.

 

[Joe]

Sam,

Here are some good ones.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1204

Joe

 

[Guest]

Is there such a thing as an external USB Hard Drive that is powered entirely
by the USB connection?

Thanks,

Norm Strong

 

[Ron Sommer]

You wouldn't want it if that was the only power for the drive.
--
Ron Sommer

: Is there such a thing as an external USB Hard Drive that is powered
entirely
: by the USB connection?
:
: Thanks,
:
: Norm Strong
:
:

 

[Anna]

Is there such a thing as an external USB Hard Drive that is powered
entirely by the USB connection?

Thanks,

Norm Strong

Norm:
We've never found a 3 1/2" HD in a USB enclosure that did not need auxiliary
power, but we have used some 2 1/2" USB EHD that could operate using the
PC's internal PS (both desktops & laptops). But in the latter case it was
erratic - sometimes they would work in the same PC; other times they would
not. No problem when using auxiliary power.
Anna

 

[Sam]

Many thanks for all of your replies. Joe, appreciate the Web address, will
phone them tomorrow. Always appreciate the information provided in this
newsgroup, especially because it is done on a volunteer basis! Sam