USB hard drive enclosure
Well I have been using it ever few days since I got it, but after bringing it to school yesterday and bringing it home my computers cannot figure out what it is. Does anyone know what could be wrong? Could I fix it or did I just loose an enclosure to my fucked up school computers? (one that I plugged it into repeatedly said I was removing the device without unplugging it (2000) when in fact all the cables were secure. I dunno, maybe I need a new USB cable as the one in it may have been damaged.
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I've got three now non working external CD burners that
died with practically no use. I think I'll look on Netseller and
see how much I can get a dozen of those usb cords and try
them before I throw them out. I know I lost one because of
the usb cord. A very ignorant and stupid gentleman brought
me his computer to work on and I needed to burn a disk image
before I did something and it died and all the CDs were
corrupt. I found out someone had told him that somebody
could get into his computer with those and to put some
vaseline in them to prevent it and he did. He said I don't
have anything that plugs in there. I would advise you not
to take it to school or anywhre else if you get it going again.
Good Luck.
Thump
simple really if its costs more than a can of drink dont bother.... lol
Also, my mini seems to be dying altogether.
Yea, well that's what Fish says about VoIP, :P!
-Q
u talking about usb keys?
if you are they are the best thing on earth for data storage that needs to be accessed by may computers.
not all the computers i work on have inet access.
Real mini drives are expencive and a pain in the ass to carry around. They are also slower. The usb key is small, i plug it in, it works, i get to my files, i make changes, save, and take it out, and do it all over again on another system.
Plus im the only one who has one.
-Q
I still want to find a REAL mini drive.
-Q
i got a dead zip drive on my desk now. it came with a pc bought in 1997, it died 3 years later.
-Q
PS. Or maybe download off your svr, but I've never tried that yet.
Seems that all my computers are falling apart and at the same time now... Operation save the mini seems to be working. I took the 8 gig out and plugged it into my pentium, then I tried copying it to the 25 gig the pentium has, but the 25 gig hard drive reset the computer. I next copied the mini's drive over the network and stored it on the dell through it's shared folder. I then had to use the pentium to install NT with the atapi update. (nothing else has a floppy drive) After getting NT installed I poped the 25 gig into the mini and installed 2k (the mini dualbooted, might as well do it again). I have most things set up for 2k and just about nothing set up for NT.
I need to get a cheap network card so I can do a crossover between computers, so NT on the mini can get to the web and network through the wireless card of the pentium and vice versa (hehe, get an ISA card and I'll get my 386 with dos and 3.11 connected to my cable.
Overall I think OSTM is progressing nicely, I started the 2k service pack 4 update when I left for school, hope the hard drive doesn't give out during the update (it did when when I installed 2k on the pentium).
Seems odd to be replacing a seemingly damaged drive with another one... the mini's 8 gig didn't have any problems when it was the secondary primary in the pentium, but before the thing kept clicking and freezing up windows.