On 03/06/2016 08:23 AM, Richard England wrote: > On 03/01/2016 07:26 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> On 03/01/2016 05:42 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> There are adapters that allow you to connect a naked hard drive to a >>> USB >>> port on your running system. This will allow you to futz with the drive >>> without disturbing the existing system or requiring another chassis. It will >>> result is a ready-to-use spare drive. >>> >> Yes. I have several. I think I even have a SATA one. What I wasn't sure >> about was if it would work at the partitioning level. I'll give it a try >> one of these days. >> > I have one from Ridgewell that connects via USB. I just went through the > exercise of scrubbing 6 old Windoze disks and reformatting them with > gparted. it worked just fine >
Good to know. I'll give it a try one of these days. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
