Been looking at these 2.5" hard drives as a means to back up all my pictures and music. Was hoping I might be able to use an old hard drive from a knackered laptop, put one of those cheap cases round it and use that via USB as portable storage. Is it feasible?
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Yes you sure can. All you need is an enclosure for it. It will house the HD and allow you to connect it to a USB port.
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USB External hard drives are very affordable and have the advantage of being portable. Another alternative is copying your data to a DVD(s). Then store them offsite in case of a fire or other disaster.
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You can get like a 200gig external hard drive for like 80bucks.
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You'd probably be better off transferring all your images and music to the external HD and then reformatting your internal.  Use the external as a storage device; too much on your internal will slow everything down.
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Yes you could like jamescsn stated.\n\nBut why bother?  Use your Ipod to listen to music.  If you need an external HD look into getting a Maxtor 300-500 GB USB drive for backing up your computer.  Safer, easier, and you still get to listen to music.\n\nhttp://www.maxtor.com/
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There are companies that float secured storage spaces for a fee, and you can connect securely to them if you have a secure internet connect. There you keep your files until needed eg CSCS. (http://www.cscs.ch/a-display.php?id=24)\n\nSince you did not specify why you not like a PORTABLE storage device, Another option is of course to deploy a non-portable storage device like external HARD DRIVES which are also USB compatible, easy to use and have HUGE capacities of sometimes >300GB. \n\nYou can also write your data to DVD's, and they come with quite a lot of capacity too these days.
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its better to have a backup on external hdd. I have 300GB ext hdd. Its easy to use and store. It will cost you like $70-$90.\n\nPS: Get a Internal HDD and an enclosure for it. Its cheaper that way.
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yes, kind of...I have an sandisk Mp3 player that you can store documents and stuff on, and its great for music.  It is 1 gig and It works really well in my opinion.  you don't have to install anything to use it either.
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Unlike 3.5" floppies, 5.25" floppies are completely outdated and therefore you will never get a 5.25" USB floppy drive or disks.\nUSB is a technology that emerged long after the 5.25" floppy variation was completely rejected by mankind. Therefore nobody cared to mix the two together. However, you can get 3.5" USB floppy drives and disks. Check out your favourite computer store.\n_______\nViva La Dvorak! - www.dvzine.org
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naah u dnt sound silly as u hv said..every1 does nt hv all d knowledge in d world...wht u hv asked is possible...u can use the flash drive to store any data/ music and detach it ...goto another computer n open/play files/music.....even on ur computer u can do that if its attached to ur comp.....i hope that helps......
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short answer will be use a flash device. It requires no power, has no moving parts and as long as you have access to a USB port, it will be available.\n\nSecond option will be a HD, if kept stored in a safe environment, you wont have to worry about the information, giving you more space than the flash drive.\n\nThose are the expensive choices.\n\nThe way i do it is using incremental backups, i started with a cd holding pictures and documents, that i keep on my hard drive. Every time i increase  significantly my documents, i make another backup.\n\nI dont dispose of all the old backups so i have at least three disks (cd or dvd) with my documents, and the hd where i keep the files.
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if it's only a small one eg:128mb/512mb then they are very cheap to buy again anyway so i wouldn't even try to fix it. after all you wouldn't  want to store important stuff on a flash drive that may corrupt at any time would you
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I have seen some models with 60Gb/100Gb IDE drives.  The 60Gb disks were 4200RPM.  Most likely to be 2.5" disk drives.\n\nHowever, if you want higher storage capacity then try external hard disk drives.  These can plug into the USB ports. You have the option of using either 2.5" disk drives(expensive) or 3.5" disk drives(cheaper, used in desktops).  You can have upto 200/250Gb or even 400Gb depending on your budget.\n\nBattery Wizard\nhttp://www.ComputerBatteries.co.uk
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use a firewire to move them quikly or if you want to do it for a little cheaper you can move the hard drive to the other computer and make it better unless you want both, then use a flash drive to move it in between computers, will take a while, but it is simple to drap the music files from the computer to the flash drive, then the flash drive to the other computer
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I would assume you got that on ebay from hong kong...they compress the drive to make it hold more and when you format it you take it back to its orriginal/correct size....you got screwed! I have not figuered out how to make it take 2 gigs again....I run a computer shop and I just had a customer with the same problem.\n\n-Doc-
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Right click on my computer --> click on manage and then go to disk management.\n\nFrom there tell me what you see with regards to the external USB 2 attached hard drive, does it show up in there, if so what does it say regarding the hard drive , does it have a filing system or anything or what ?\n\nIt may just be a case of having to assign a drive letter to it.\n\nThanks
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Try Filelodge, or Photobucket, both are free... but beware, if there servers crash your pics are gone! External hard drives are cheep, 100gig for $60-$70 I use one for my music & pictures...