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Internal Zip drive becomes External?

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by seanbennett88

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I would like to take the internal zip drive out of my machine to make room for another drive. Still I would like to use the zip drive as an external drive. My question:

Can I use an enclosure kit for internal hard drives (it allows an internal hard drive to function externally, through a USB connection) to with an internal zip drive?

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by willcomp

Since an internal Zip drive is an IDE device with a 12 v power connector, it should work.

Ensure that you jumper drive to setting required by external adapter (usually master). Zip drive default is slave.

Perhaps a better alternative would be to purchase an external USB Zip drive.

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by glyall

check ebay for cheap zip drive or check small repair shops if they have one
I lot of people are going away from zip drive.
They are going to DVD multi drives.

Good Luck

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