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by jiminpa

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Hello all. I have been searching unsuccessfully for an external drive enclosure for a laptop drive. Does anyone know if such a thing exsists and where I might find it?

Funny story, my brother owns his own excavating business and I am the "CIO" LOL for all three of his computers. One is a laptop he takes on job sites with him. One day in his frustration with computers decided to put a fist size dent in his keyboard I don't know who was harder on him, me or his wife. :)

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by oh smeg

The IDE are common and are like these

http://tinyurl.com/3ad9ok

Got to HDD on the left hand side in the dark blue and look in the USB2 Attached Storage.

The SATA ones don't exist as such as they have the same Interface as the 3.5 Inch drives so any External SATA USB Enclosure will work and most have a spacing plate or like to allow the 2.4 inch derives to fit.

As for Earthmover's I have 1 customer who parked a Excavator on a computer the very first time I went to that place & I had to leave as I didn't think laughing was a good sign. I never expected to get called back and they are now a regular customer who constantly threaten me with parking a 40 Ton Excavator on problem NB's. :D

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by jiminpa

It's a Toshiba Satelite but not entirely sure of the drive type yet.

by older mycroft

On this side, one USB 2.5 in IDE enclosure [including postage/packaging] costs ?15.71.

The joke of the matter is, that the enclosure weighs so little and is so small that ordering 2 costs little more than ordering 1. They both fit in the one box and don't exceed the minimum chargeable postage rate!

Unfortunately I didn't realise this until I had figured out that 2 were easier to use.

dabs.com sent me a very nice little note inside the second box pointing out my error, just in case I ordered any more! :)

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