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  1. satb7783

    satb7783 Member

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    I just bought an external enclosure and a 120 GB hard drive for some extra space for movies and what not, b/c I have a laptop, so I don't have that much space to begin with...but before I insatll this hard drive into the case, I was wondering what the external drive should be....master or slave? I will only be turning it on when I am wanting to use Ghost and backup my system or backup a movie and save it on there. Isn't the HDD in the laptop the master, and then this one would be the slave...or no? Any help would be great on what I should do about hooking this up...I have never done this before. Thanks!
     
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  2. Gringle

    Gringle Guest

    I believe you've answered your own question correctly.

    regards gringle
     
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  3. Gringle

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    Sorry [re] the advice, it differs from makes of, HD to HD lots of info in google.

    regards again gringle
     
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    Since this will be connected by USB, you would need to make the settings on the HD to Master.
     
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  5. Gringle

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    Sorry Scuba bubd; I thought by chance, and by an inate percerption. That part of bubbles floating...had been understood?

    So'oo while I miander among bubbles floating to the sky;

    I gotta think 'bout a sort of imatation; a sort of non-risk disc?

    regards gringle.
     
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    @ gringle

    I'm a bit lost. Are you saying that:

    is the same as:

    Thanks

    Just in case, @satb7783, Select "Master" as the setting for the "External Hard Drive" you will be using in your enclosure.
     
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    Wrong forum. Thread moved.
     
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    external hd is seen as slave, i have a 40gig wd in 2.5" usb2 enclosure & is my f:drive unless i reboot with drive plugged in than is d:drive. on some bioses can boot off external drives so see if you have that capability
     
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    That is correct ddp. It will be seen as an additional drive once plugged into a USB port since the master HDD is internal. But the actual setting on the back of the hard drive installed into the enclosure should be set as “master”.

    Here is a link from a gentleman that setup his own external HDD and some of the problems he encountered:

    http://www.camerahobby.com/Digital_HardDriveCase.htm


    Thanks
     
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  10. satb7783

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    When I do install this drive, antyhing I need to do to it, or just start saving things to it? In the last post, it mentioned something about "formatting" the drive...how am I suppose to do that? Just a scandisk and defrag, or...? I am confused on what "formatting the drive" really means. Also...I don't need to artition this drive right, b/c I will be only using it to save music, pictures, backup dvd's and what not...right?
     
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    ScubaBud, 3.5" ide may have to be jumpered but not 2.5" ide fot laptops which my drive is.
    satb7783, you have to partition & format drive before able to store software onto drive. if using xp, goto disk management to create partition on drive than format it
     
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    I feel kind of stupid, but I have no idea how to do any of this. I am in disk management, then what do you do to partition and format? I still have to do this even if I am only putting songs and single type files on it, not software of any kind.

    Thanks for the help
     
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    Thanks for the link, that helped
     
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    no problem, teach & learn
     
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