Suggestions - Hard Drive from Samsung Laptop

[hughjarce]

Hi

My wife's Samsung laptop has gone belly up but the hard drive is OK.
She also has a cracking Liteon external DVD RW (only 2 months old). It
has been suggested that we could slap the HD into a case and use it as
an external USB drive as my wife is probably going to buy a new laptop
which all seem to have DVD RW drives.

My desktop is 8 yrs old with WIN 98 and 3Gb hard drive that still does
95% of what I want so reluctant to buy a new PC. It will not however
work with either the Samsung HD or Liteon DVD RW. With that in mind now
thinking about putting together a desktop which can use the Samsung
hard drive and the Liteon as the optical drive albeit external rather
than built in.

Is that feasible/practical/economic or would I be better to sell the
Liteon and buy/build a desktop with a DVD RW? By the way already have
an LCD monitor so just the box thing.

Regards

 

[Paul]

Hi

My wife's Samsung laptop has gone belly up but the hard drive is OK.
She also has a cracking Liteon external DVD RW (only 2 months old). It
has been suggested that we could slap the HD into a case and use it as
an external USB drive as my wife is probably going to buy a new laptop
which all seem to have DVD RW drives.

My desktop is 8 yrs old with WIN 98 and 3Gb hard drive that still does
95% of what I want so reluctant to buy a new PC. It will not however
work with either the Samsung HD or Liteon DVD RW. With that in mind now
thinking about putting together a desktop which can use the Samsung
hard drive and the Liteon as the optical drive albeit external rather
than built in.

Is that feasible/practical/economic or would I be better to sell the
Liteon and buy/build a desktop with a DVD RW? By the way already have
an LCD monitor so just the box thing.

Regards

Maybe you could place a card like this in your eight year old desktop ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16816102007

I'm using a card like that (the alower Ultra100 version) in this P2B-S
that I'm typing on right now. One benefit, is the bandwidth it has to
offer, is higher than is available via the Southbridge IDE interfaces.

Paul

 

[williamson.john.g]

Thanks

Still juggling all the options and your contibution greatly
appreciated.

Regards