I want to convert my old internal IBM deskstar into an external usb drive

Hello,
I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP 3.5-inch 7200 RPM 60GB ATA disk drive that
I would like to convert to an external usb storage device. This drive
has some data on it that I would like to retain. I have read an article
that describes this process and it involves using a drive enclosure.
The article mentions that the drive will have been reformatted
beforehand is this really necessary? I want that data. Well can someone
help me with this? Here is the article that I read does this pretty
much cover it?
http://www.informit.com/articles/art...?p=404168&rl=1

"6strings4u" writes:

Hello,
I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP 3.5-inch 7200 RPM 60GB ATA disk drive that
I would like to convert to an external usb storage device. This drive
has some data on it that I would like to retain. I have read an article
that describes this process and it involves using a drive enclosure.
The article mentions that the drive will have been reformatted
beforehand is this really necessary?

No.

Plug it into the enclosure. Plug enclosure into a supporting OS.
Enjoy.

If it's NTFS formated, you may need to fiddle with permissions on it
since teh UID on your current machine is probably different than the
machine it came from, so you may have to add your current user to
read/write capability for the whole drive and apply it to all
subfolders, but that's really about it.

Also, I think XP Home or some such may not like reading foreign
UUID's. I know on win2k pro or XP Pro though, it's never ever been a
problem for me. Or on Linux using ntfs as read only.

Just really, plug and play.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

6strings4u wrote

I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP 3.5-inch 7200 RPM 60GB ATA disk
drive that I would like to convert to an external usb storage device.
This drive has some data on it that I would like to retain.

You should have a copy of that data, those drives are
so notorious that they generated a full class action suit.

I have read an article that describes this process and it involves
using a drive enclosure. The article mentions that the drive will
have been reformatted beforehand is this really necessary?

I cant see where it actually says you have to reformat the drive.
All he says is that he assumes the drive is already formatted,
because he assumes its already been used.

I want that data. Well can someone help me with this?

Just do it and copy the data.

Here is the article that I read does this pretty much cover it?

Its pretty mindless, there are bugger all that arent USB2 for example.

And you normally need to set the jumpers to master, not single.

http://www.informit.com/articles/art...?p=404168&rl=1

Previously 6strings4u wrote:
Hello,
I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP 3.5-inch 7200 RPM 60GB ATA disk drive that
I would like to convert to an external usb storage device. This drive
has some data on it that I would like to retain. I have read an article
that describes this process and it involves using a drive enclosure.
The article mentions that the drive will have been reformatted
beforehand is this really necessary?

No. Definitely not. The filesystem will still look the same.

I want that data. Well can someone
help me with this? Here is the article that I read does this pretty
much cover it?
http://www.informit.com/articles/art...?p=404168&rl=1

No idea (sorry, no time to read it). But one very critical
thing, expecially with older disks, is cooling. Also a decent
enclosure will cost enough that putting in an old disk
is not cost-efficient.

Arno

"Arno Wagner" wrote in message
Previously 6strings4u wrote:
Hello,
I have an IBM Deskstar 60GXP 3.5-inch 7200 RPM 60GB ATA disk drive that
I would like to convert to an external usb storage device. This drive
has some data on it that I would like to retain. I have read an article
that describes this process and it involves using a drive enclosure.
The article mentions that the drive will have been reformatted
beforehand is this really necessary?

No. Definitely not. The filesystem will still look the same.

I want that data. Well can someone
help me with this? Here is the article that I read does this pretty
much cover it?
http://www.informit.com/articles/art...?p=404168&rl=1

No idea (sorry, no time to read it).

What, 24 hours per day in this newsgroup and still no time?
Must babble, no time to read. Must babble, must babble, so busy, no time, so busy ....

But one very critical thing, expecially with older disks, is cooling.
Also a decent enclosure will cost enough that putting in an old disk
is not cost-efficient.

Arno