Hi! And a quick HD Q.

[geargrinder65]

Hi all, new here Looks like a great msg. board!
I have a quick question for ya. I have a hard drive that I had been using for a slave in my desk top (custom rig, XP Pro) and now it's out of the tower, and I need to get the data off it. Can I just connect it with the external USB conversion set-up and get all my files off it that way? Or will it have to be reformatted (and lose all my files) to connect it that way? I could put it back in my desk top if I HAVE TO, but I would rather not if I can avoid it.

PS: I did do a search, but I don't know how to narrow this down enough to get the answer

 

[prosser13]

It depends on your hard drive enclosure I believe - some drives require the drive to be reformatted. If it doesn't, then you should be OK.

 

[~mr mixx~]

Welcome to Computer forums,

well i believe you can do it via usb,your computer should load up the driver's for it when it detects it, but you might have re-boot after it detects it to read/write to it. you should'nt have a problem transfering over your flies.

if it does'nt work, it's not that hard to pop it back into your computer to retrieve the files.

 

[Kage]

If you have another drive booting up into Windows, and want to drag files off the one from your desktop, setting it as a Slave should allow you to do that, since its not using Windows, so won't have a problem with the new system.