I was looking through some PC parts I have laying around here (old computer minus HDD, processor and remnant of my old laptop what I scavenged off of it) and ran across my old Laptops 12gb hard drive now by today’s standards that’s not much I know but there’s some files i would like to get off of it so is there any way I can perhaps make this old laptop hard drive into perhaps an external hard drive? and the second question is just me being curious, How many items does Avast! have in detection? does anyone know this? its just a question that I randomly thought up.
Most External HDD enclosures are for 3.5" drive bays, though you should be able to find one to accept 2.5" mobile HDD ones. They are usually USB2 to connect to the computer, so may be able to run with a power supply, drawing power from the usb port.
The main consideration is that the connection method of the external drive bay, e.g. what drives connections will it support, your old mobile hdd is likely to be IDE whilst some of the newer external drive enclosures support SATA drives.
Your throw away question has been asked and answered many times in the forums, numbers are meaningless as they provide no way of comparison as:
a) other AV may employ different methods of counting.
b) the use of generic signatures you can’t quantify a figure of what it might detect, you only have to check out the win32:trojan-gen detections in the forums to see that.
If you want a futile exercise, open the virus database and enter * in the search window and click OK that will count all the signatures but not all of what it might detect.
It isn’t as a second drive but to recover data from it.
I know but there's some files i would like to get off of it so is there any way I can perhaps make this old laptop hard drive into perhaps an external hard drive?
