Back again – if you check my sig, you’ll note some drastic changes in my system. My old one finally died yesterday, blew its power supply and who knows what else, so went for a new one today which cost about half what the old one did (this one was about $300 Cdn including taxes). Micro-mini case, too, no bigger than my router – my old one was about 12" W x 24" H by 30 or 36 deep.
I’m in the process of rebuilding my software – got all my old-time security stuff back in except for the firewall, but hopefully the Win Firewall plus the other stuff should keep me going. There’s a lot I’d like to retrieve from the old drive in the way of games etc., but so far I’ve been unable to find an external housing that’ll handle its old-style IDE connections, especially for power. If I ever succeed in that, data transfer’s no problem thru USB.
And of course fun and games trying to break out of XP habits and learn 7 … one of the biggest problems, as has been typical of Window for ages, is that there’s usually something that’ll do the same as I’m used to, but with a totally new name and location that’s a b**ch to find. And Win Explorer, which used to be the handiest way to move or copy files, has for all practical purposes gone, replaced by something totally unrelated with the same name. I can access files thru “Computer”, of course, but I miss being able to see folder-trees on the left and their contents on the right.
On the bright side, download speeds are way up – used to be limited to around 25 KB/sec or so per connection, or around 300KB and a bit with a download manager using 12 sections, but now even with Firefox’s built in downloader by itself, I can get well over 500 KB/sec, or close to 6 megs a minute.
I still use explorer in win7 on my netbook and view the tree layout, I have the old Quick Start instated and on that I explorer and a number of other applications I use regularly.
Thanks, Pondus, but probably not. While I couldn’t get anywhere with the Norwegian (Norse?) text, and I was too lazy to plug in a translator, my son immediately identified it as a device for sector-by-sector transfer of an entire drive’s contents, which wouldn’t be a great idea where the two drives are on totally different operating systems. He says it looks like it’s intended for a large-office environment, where the idea is to do installations on one computer and then relatively quickly transfer them to the others.
I’m looking simply to power and control my old IDE drive so I can use it temporarily as an external drive on the new system and copy selected apps and data files over to the new drive. Unfortunately standard IDE is so old that appropriate housings are hard to come by. Thanks anyway.
There are external drive enclosures, in which they are open and you just slot your hard drive into and the enclosure is connected by USB to the new computer.
However, many of these may well be SATA connection compatible so you would have to check if you can slow it an IDE drive. Lots of hits on this search, http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=IDE+external+drive+enclosure, obviously my searches are geared up to look for UK sites, but I’m sure the same search for ‘IDE external drive enclosure’ (without the quotes) would return a good number of hits.
