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making an extral hd
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16. November 2007 @ 20:10 |
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i have a wd400 hd out of my old dell which was working.
i placed it into a me-720 series enclosure. the pc will see it under device manger but it has a yellow exclamation point shown. it is not listed under removable storage in my computer.i called there tech support line. was told the hd might not be compatible with there unit. is this possible? i have the jumper set to ma if it matters!.
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16. November 2007 @ 22:39 |
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The Me-720 is a bit of a useless drive enclosure. I'd suggest you try it with a different enclosure. Most boxes will read most drives, and not bake them like the Me-720 will.
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17. November 2007 @ 07:39 |
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do you have any models that work well?
i figured the me720 was ok with the fan it had.
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17. November 2007 @ 11:33 |
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The Me-320 is supposed to be a lot better, because it supports large sized drives (i.e. CD-ROM types) it has enough room to adequately cool a hard disk.
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17. November 2007 @ 13:51 |
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do you have the drive jumpered as master, slave, cable select or not jumpered because being a western digital drive then don't jumper it?
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17. November 2007 @ 19:36 |
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i have the drive jumped to master position. your saying try no jumper?
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17. November 2007 @ 19:44 |
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Certainly if it's a Western Digital drive try that. Even if not, it may be worth a try.
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17. November 2007 @ 20:46 |
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jumper off. wd is the only 1 that does that.
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17. November 2007 @ 21:17 |
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thank you
all is working well with it.
i just have to format it now..
what is the purpose of partitioning a hd?
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17. November 2007 @ 23:04 |
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Partitions effectively split a single hard drive (or array) into multiple 'drives'. Whilst the process will impair the speed of the drive somewhat, it makes it easier to manage multiple roles off the same drive. (For example it means you can completely reformat one sector to get rid of a windows install if you've had issues with it, whilst keeping all your personal data on the same hard drive)
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18. November 2007 @ 09:34 |
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thank you
i see it might be ideal to do that to this one. when using it as a external hd and partitioned can i pick the sections i want to storage data in?
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18. November 2007 @ 12:00 |
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Yes. Partitioning a drive off basically gives you two (or more) drive letters. Pick which one you want, in the same way that you'd do so for multiple hard drives.
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18. November 2007 @ 17:38 |
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all drives have to be partitioned whether a single partition or multiple partitions & formated before drive can be used.
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18. November 2007 @ 19:57 |
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to make my single partition drive a multiple partitions drive will i have to back up my data on it or will it be ok there?
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18. November 2007 @ 20:26 |
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If you want to suddenly make a single partition drive a multi-partition one when it already has data on it, it's doable, but you need something like Acronis DiskDirector to do it.
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19. November 2007 @ 10:15 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
If you want to suddenly make a single partition drive a multi-partition one when it already has data on it, it's doable, but you need something like Acronis DiskDirector to do it.
what if i dont care about the stuff on it. does disc manger do this too?
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19. November 2007 @ 13:17 |
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It can, but only if it's a blank unformatted volume I think. So you obviously can't do it if it's the drive with windows on it.
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19. November 2007 @ 14:54 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
It can, but only if it's a blank unformatted volume I think. So you obviously can't do it if it's the drive with windows on it.
i am just using this drive as an removeable external drive to store some pic's. but it got me curious when multiple paritions where mentioned . this way i can have my stuff in the differnt parts.
so i will assume windows does not run off it.
it was and old dell main drive which i formatted the other day.
now i like'd to add 2 more paritions to it.
keep in mind i am still learning :)
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19. November 2007 @ 15:18 |
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Well, you can reformat it to have multiple partitions, but for a pictures drive is that really necessary? The drive will run faster if you just use folders.
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19. November 2007 @ 15:40 |
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at this point i am just playing around now. but the info is appreicated!
yes right now they are in indv folders. maybe i will joint them to one folder
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19. November 2007 @ 17:45 |
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Originally posted by born2ride:
at this point i am just playing around now. but the info is appreicated!
yes right now they are in indv folders. maybe i will joint them to one folder
If your pictures are in individual folders, leave them that way. Sammorris was not saying to put them all into one folder.
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19. November 2007 @ 18:53 |
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Indeed, what I was saying was essentially this.
I used to use a RAID array and made a separate partiton for each type of media. M for Mp3, S for software, V for Video, X for Games, Y for Work, Z for Misc. It's typically faster however, to just have the one partition and have say, Y:/Music, Y:/Games, Y:/Video and so on.
If you want to put the OS on a drive, then make two partitions, but you shouldn't need to make more.
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19. November 2007 @ 20:43 |
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ok got it .
now i just have to figure how to do it.
i add a folder in portable storage unit.
i was inside the psu when making folder but when i transfer the stuff in it does not prompt me which folder i want to place my new stuff in.
sammorris
i like your concept but can't figure how to get it to read the way you descriped.
is the raid array more than one hard drive linked?
can you explain this raid array and what is your purpose of using it
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21. November 2007 @ 20:11 |
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Straight and simple, I wouldn't bother with RAID. It's not worth doing unless you have lots of hard drives and want redundant data.
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21. November 2007 @ 20:14 |
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i been trying to do my homework on it and all i really found was the array used to mirror another drive. which did not seem to help me.
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