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It looks like you enlisted some "crypty" parts to help with the data transfer. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
I wonder'd about that. No shame in it: I've used computer parts in my cars... Once made a Weber carb throttle cable bracket/receiver from old Atari frame aluminum! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
SilentUnicorn said:
now buy one of these https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1955447&Tab=1&NoMapp=0
and you will be all set again.

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Hi Dale,
If your Seagate is a 3.5” drive (and it looks like it) that Xion 2.5” will be too small. That is for a laptop drive. I can’t recommend a particular brand, but look for an enclosure that has these features: 3.5” drive, ATA (not SATA), USB 2.0, maybe a fan. I’d also stick with a power cord instead of juice coming over the USB cable. USB can’t run too many things at once before it gets tapped out.
 
Hey Greg,

Speaking of power cords.

I'm pretty good about keeping backups. This latest mess
caught me off guard.

My backup backup stopped running and I was about to go
purchase a new backup backup external drive when I broke
the pins on my primary backup external drive.

Just for the heck of it, I dismantled my non-functional
backup backup external drive and put the drive in my computer
as a 4th internal hard drive to see if it would spin. It
did! So I copied everything to my No2 internal drive.

Today I'm going to CompUSA and purchase a new backup external drive.

So I went from zero backup to five backups by end of
today.

Thanks one and all!!

dale
 
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