Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: tazpaige on September 16, 2007, 12:46:50 PM
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dell dimenison 4600 mini tower
30gb harddrive
2 mb memory
cd/cd r/w and read dvd
my computer (event log) is telling me that i have a harddrive problem and need to backup my drive. i thought of trying a second harddrive but, worry about changeing the drive letters for my cd r/w or the r/dvd. so, i am asking if someone can tell me what type of external drive i should get. i a leaning towards the type of houseing that will allow me to change the harddrives in it. i know nothing about the new usb 2.0 externals.
thanks for your help.
tazpaige
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You should get an external hard drive enclosure kit if you plan on switching around the hard drives as the externals. Otherwise, just get an external hard drive. I believe that you can boot from an external USB hard drive by changing the settings in the BIOS.
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An earlier post i was involved with by someone other than myself if i remember correctly stated that one could NOT boot from an external drive for the O/S XP.truenorth
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Ok sorry I got confused with something else. :-\
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An earlier post i was involved with by someone other than myself if i remember correctly stated that one could NOT boot from an external drive for the O/S XP.truenorth
This is true for XP and anything newer as far as Windows is concerned...
To clarify...yes it can be done with aton of tweaking...is it worth it ? No.