HD crash recovery Was - Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Vintageworld where are you

[Jim Cox]

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:05:54 -0600
  Alan Jones <ojones at elp.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim, that is exactly what I did! I went to CompUSA 
>and bought the enclosure. I slapped my Fugitsu drive in 
>the USB enclosure and was able to backup my important 
>files to my desktop computer. It only cost about $30 and 
>it is a good investment for future use. I had to put the 
>drive in  the vertical position or slanted position to 
>get the drive to spin and copy the files. But it worked. 
>I then put the old drive in the trash! I plan on buying 
>me a spare notebook drive and putting it in the enclosure 
>so I will have another backup drive for use at work.
> 
> Alan

Hi Alan:

Those USB enclosures from CompUSA are cheap enough to be 
used for projects.  I currently use one for testing all 
the drives I have salvaged.  I just leave it opened so I 
can swap out drives faster.  I've thought if might be 
interesting to strip one down and use it internally in a 
PC case.

-Jim Cox
http://www.miba51.com/