>>I misunerstood, I thought that you wanted to buy a new HD. To read the data from the old HD, I recommend that you simply mount it in another PC, so that PC will see this HD as D: or whatever. THen you can share it, and link your new PC to this PC. I have done that successfully many times.
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>No problem, Tore.
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>My difficulty is that of my 3 systems (2 PC and a laptop) only 1 - the broken one, has SATA, and the drive in question is SATA :(

Don't you have a good friend or colleague who can lend you a PC for a few hours? If he/she only share your HD, you can only connect to your own HD anyway.

>cheers
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>>>Thanks Tore.
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>>>I know 10,000 rpm is overkill, but this is an existing drive (reformat is not an option) from my (currently) dead PC and I want to copy its data to another system.
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>>>Glad to hear that NTFS works.
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>>>cheers
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>>>>Hi Jim,
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>>>>I have a 320GB WD USB HD, and it came formatted using NTFS, as I believe most drives are. Anyway, you can easily re-format it using whatever file system your OS supports. But be aware that these USB drives are relatively slow, and can never compare to an internal drive. This also means that 10,000RPM will be overkill.
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>>>>>As my computer woes continue my thought is to take my data drive from the system and put it into one of those external USB enclosures so that I can extract my data to another system or 2.
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>>>>>Does anyone know if these devices support NTFS?
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>>>>>While I think it's not a problem, am I correct that there should be no problem installing a 10,000 rpm drive into such a box?
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>>>>>Any comments appreciated.