[plug] 2.5 USB Enclosure

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 20:46, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 20:29 +0800, Daniel Pearson wrote:
> > Howdy
> > 
> > If possible need to borrow one for a few hours, unless someone knows of 
> > another way to pull files off a 2.5" hdd?
> > 
> > Cheers; Dan
> > 
> 
> Alternatively, if you need to do it from time to time jaycar and/or
> altronics sell an adaptor to allow a 2.5" drive to suit standard desktop
> 3.5" IDE drive connectors.  Not expensive - around $15-20, from memory.
> Search their sites or give me a shout to look out the cat number, if
> needed.
> 
> Gavin 
> 
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The real problem I find with the 2.5" ext usb caddies is they don't
support drives under a certain size. If someone wants their data
recovered from an old laptop with a 10gb or so harddrive then you need
to use one of the 2.5" to 3.5" adaptors or be able to run a live-cd on
the lappy.

regards,

Chris