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External Drive Replacement - need help!

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Post June 20th, 2006, 6:25 pm

Hey all -

I'm trying to replace the HDD in my external drive (it is failing as we speak):

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?s ... caid=17379

I just can't tell what the drive is... Is it a SCSI/IDE/something else? What am I missing here? I opened it and it looks like the connection is shorter than a standard IDE cable. Ideas?

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Post June 20th, 2006, 6:25 pm

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Post June 21st, 2006, 8:32 am

ok - i opened it up again after recovering my data and it looks like it is an ATA100. Do you think I can just drop in another one? Or is there special software on these things? Thanks in advance
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Post June 24th, 2006, 7:08 am

Why don't you just connect that up instead of the old one?
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Post June 26th, 2006, 10:36 pm

i dont reccomend external hard drives..its really just a normal computer hard drive in a facy hard case with a usb connection port..and costs like $100 more than an internal HDD.
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Post June 27th, 2006, 12:56 am

Yeah, but not everyone has IDE spots to spare.

Additionally, some people like to be able to take their data with them.

By the way, I bought a 20 dollar external IDE case from Newegg and a $50 250gb HD from woot.com and it works like a charm. 70 bucks for a nice 250gb external drive isn't too bad.
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