> have a machine I'm no longer using. It has a good 30 or 40 gig hard drive in
> it. Can I just deattach the ribbon from the... circuit board I assume, take
> the drive, set it to slave, attach the ribbon to my existing hard drive on
> my current computer, and be done with it? I also assume I'll have to connect
> power somehow.
While you're setting the addition to slave, you may also have to set the
existing one to master. This is, IMHO, more reliable than cable select.
If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it too much.
The power cable is right next to that ribbon cable. Remember: the red
wire on the power cable goes right next to the red or pink stripe on the
ribbon cable. I am, here, assuming this is a standard IDE drive, btw.
> This doable? Easy? Something I should avoid as a clueless hardware guy?
This is pretty much the second easiest upgrade after adding RAM.
> I only ask because my nice external 120gig drive has, over the last two
> weeks, starting making .... noises... odd noises... and I'm pretty sure this
> is a sign of its impending doom, so I want to copy files off of it in case
> I'm right.
I swear! I had nothing to do with it! I never touched your drive!
Also, if you drive grinds, while it's not a sign of Me, it is a sign of
a drive-failure-to-be. By the way -- if the drive in the enclosure
dies, do not discard this thing. You can replace the drives in these
pretty easily. It's just like replacing the one on the inside of your
computer.
If you want more guidance on any of this, we can continue here or we can
take it off-list.
--BenD
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