Will it be possible to access files from a hard disk enclosure?
That is what I am going to do but I am not completely sure on how it works. I think there are a few solutions out there. Here is the one solution I found:
Hard disk enclosure
There are enclosure units for internal hard disks. The internal hard disk fits inside one of these and you connect it up to your computer/laptop using USB or FireWire (depending on what model you buy). I have seen some of these units at good prices. My question is - how on earth do I access data from the hard disk? I mean, say if I have Windows XP on the internal hard disk and have a password-protected account. Can I still access my files? I’m confused since it will just be accessing the files not the operating system. All I want to do is pull some of my personal files.
If you can help, thank-you. Also, are there any alternate solutions?
On these external hard drives, they only contain files and no operating system. You simply hook them to your main machine via USB or Firewire, go to My Computer, and they will show up like your other drives (C:, D:, etc.). Then you can dig down into it like any other drive.
July 5th, 2009 at 9:14 am
On these external hard drives, they only contain files and no operating system. You simply hook them to your main machine via USB or Firewire, go to My Computer, and they will show up like your other drives (C:, D:, etc.). Then you can dig down into it like any other drive.
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July 5th, 2009 at 9:36 am
It will show up as a drive in "My Computer".
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July 5th, 2009 at 10:12 am
You can buy an external hard drive, which is the hard drive and a hard drive enclosure sold as a single unit.
Or you can buy a hard drive (internal) and a hard drive enclosure and put the former inside the later to make an external hard drive.
An external hard drive is just like a floppy disk or a USB memory stick. You can copy files to and from it. The major difference between the three is the storage capacity.
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