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Chris
04-14-2007, 09:03 AM
I just had a thought. I got a bunch of old PCs in quasi working order in a closet. I'd like to go through their harddrives and see if there is any old data I could salvage, but I don't think I could get them all booted up again. Has anyone seen like an external harddrive dock that you can just plug an IDE hd into?

s2kinteg916
04-14-2007, 09:24 AM
You can buy a usb external hard drive enclosure....

Westech
04-14-2007, 09:52 AM
I always just get one junker working and connected to the network, then leave the case off and the drive cables dangling out so I can keep switching out the secondary HD and copying the data to another PC.

Todd W
04-14-2007, 12:20 PM
I've gotten a longer than normal IDE cable and run it through the front 5.25" bay, most of hte time I have a power extension but you may need one of those too. :)

AndyH
04-15-2007, 02:20 AM
External hard drive bay. I've got one - works well.