I would like to add another hard drive to my system. Is there a hard drive encloseure that I can place an extra hard drive into and run it thru my usb 2.0 ports? My motherboard doesn't support a floppy drive. Could I do this the same way?
2007-11-26 01:15:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
www.cooldrives.com has plenty of options.
Or if you can still find them Maxtor made ATA100 PCI cards that will add 2 IDE ports to the system.
2007-11-26 01:18:50 · answer #1 · answered by castleon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are external USB CD drives, DVD drives, Hard Drives and Floppies available. They work well (even with USB 1.1 usually) and are normally very easy to install. You can purchase them as a complete unit, or get an enclosure and add your own drive into it. (Useful if you are like me and do a lot of computer repair work, so always have somebody's hard drive from which I need to recover data. That way I can change drives regularly).
I currently have a 500gig external hard drive and an external DVD burner that I keep attached to my laptop's docking station all the time. Plus a floppy I can add if needed.
2007-11-26 01:50:41 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-25 02:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by kaspari 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋