Yea it disappeared a couple of years ago and I can't/don't like to use internal drives since they require me to haul the machine around to access them, and even so that DVD-"ROM" was horrible: It could barely read CDs!
Anyway, with this I'll be able to remove the internal drive to lighten the PSU's load and prevent trouble.
I got myself one of those nig-rig external cables.
It's basically a PSU, about the size of a laptop one, and a USB>IDE cable.
Was dirt cheap, only $7. Good for copying date for temporary purposes. The IDE plug also flips around to a laptop one too which eliminates the PSU since the USB has enough power for the drive.
I could see something like that being useful especially if you're trying to fix old shit and don't want to rip another computer apart to wipe/test a drive.
Beware of those, I got one to hook up hard drives temporarily and
it doesn't work. I haven't tried it with CD or DVD though. Have
you tried it with a hard drive JackTheStripper?
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Anyway, with this I'll be able to remove the internal drive to lighten the PSU's load and prevent trouble.
-Q
It's basically a PSU, about the size of a laptop one, and a USB>IDE cable.
Was dirt cheap, only $7. Good for copying date for temporary purposes. The IDE plug also flips around to a laptop one too which eliminates the PSU since the USB has enough power for the drive.
-Q
You can flip it around to use a regular IDE cable which would require the PSU.
It works. Speed isn't an issue since USB is slow to begin with. Works in any IDE hard drive or CD/DVD drive.
-Q
it doesn't work. I haven't tried it with CD or DVD though. Have
you tried it with a hard drive JackTheStripper?
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Maybe you just had one bad experience?
It doesn't work in Windows 2003 but works fine in XP.