Hard drives have two connectors - one for power and another for data. On
both IDE and SATA drives the power connector has four fairly fat wires
going into it even though the connector's shape is a bit different.
These wires usually head towards the power supply. The data cables are
quite different. The sata cable is about as wide as the top of a
keyboard key while an IDE cable is a 1.75" wide (roughly the long
dimension of a 9v battery) ribbon with a big 40-pin connector on the
end. So from the width of the data cable going into the drive it should
be pretty obvious which kind it is. 250GB drives are right on the edge
of when the transition from IDE to SATA happened so they could be of
either interface flavor. Once you know you can order an external case
with the appropriate innards.
CB
On 1/23/14 5:26 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
Hi:
The 2ndary drive I'd like the use as storage, as well as access the content of
the drive. The Internal drive that houses XP, I can reformat it and use as a
backup. How do you tell which type of connection the internal dries have?
On Jan 23, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
Are you trying to just recycle the space or are you trying to save what's on
the XP drives? If you just want to wipe them and re-use them for extra storage
on your Mac then you just need an external case. Whether it's USB or Firewire
depends on what you're connecting it to and how fast you want it to go. The
drives themselves are either IDE or SATA so you'll need to get an external case
that can connect to whatever drive type you have. I have some old 250GB IDE
drives in external Firewire cases which work just fine as backup storage.
CB
On 1/22/14 10:13 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
You can buy any enclosures and use the drives with no problems. However, the
mac won't be able to write to them, only read from them. You'll have to either
copy everything to a third drive, format the two, then copy it back, or copy
everything to one drive, format it, copy everything to the newly formatted one,
and format the other. Windows uses NTFS, and the Mac needs, I believe, Mac OS
Extended. Both Windows and mac can read from each other's file systems, but
neither can write to the other's. That's why I said the Mac can read your
drives to copy the data off, but not write to them. So, you'll need to preserve
your data somehow, then format the drives as the mac file system to make them
Mac-only. If you want cross compatibility, go with FAT32, but note that files
larger than 4gb will not be supported.
On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi:
Yeah, i could. I just want to use those USB. The drives are still good. If I
couldn't use that internal one with the OS of Windows on it, I'd want to figure
out how to distroy it so no one could get access to my data.
On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
You could also buy an external drive now and copy the data files to it from
your XP machine before you get the Mini. I'm not sure whether Mac os reads the
ntfs files system, but you could format the drive as fat32 to be on the safe
side.
Chris
On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all:
I have an old XP machine with two internal hard drives. The main drive runs XP
and has files on it. I have a Seagate internal drive in the machine as well.
It's 250GB and is used to store data. In April when XP is discontinued, I'm
probably going to buy a Mac mini to replace that desktop. Is there way I can
buy a couple of drive enclosures to put around those internal drives so I can
use them on my mini to access the data? Has anyone done this?
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