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[Carl Edlund Anderson]

It might be tough to cram an external drive into a laptop -- laptops  
tend to require smaller drives than normally go into external  
enclosures or desktop machines, I think.  But as Steve says, you  
might well simply be able to buy another external enclosure and put  
the drive itself in that.

I did the opposite once, and pulled an old laptop drive out of an  
otherwise dead laptop and stuck it in a external enclosure (sized for  
such drives).  It's actually still humming away here now, though  
rather small for my music library -- I use it as a kind of tertiary  
backup for other small files and stuff.

Cheers,
Carl

On 26 Aug 2008, at 06:34 , Steve Swann wrote:
> "It depends."  There's a fair to good chance though that any  
> external drive is just a standard SATA drive in fancy enclosure.   
> You might be able to tear it out and just buy a new drive enclosure  
> (I've bought several from Newegg.com).
> No guarantees you understand...
> Steve
>
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> Date: Monday, Aug 25, 2008 8:04 pm
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> i backed up my entire PC on a portable drive. But I broke the port  
> on the drive and have to break it open and put it INSIDE my laptop.
> tell Mary or me how to do that!
>
> C.
>

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