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 differ
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 wrote:
> Are you tr
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
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 newl
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 wrote:
> You could also buy an
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
w
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
