So thanks to the recommendation here, I purchased a macbook. It's amazing.
Just one thing I think I need a lot of help with.
I want to take the notebook hard drive from my old laptop and use it as an external hard drive for my mac. I have purchased an enclosure which came with a manual about drivers but not about partitioning or about how to set up the pins.
So what do I do?
- thanks in advance
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There may be a label on the Hard drive itself which will tell you how to set the pins to make the drive a 'slave' drive. Partioning can be done in Windows if the drive has been formated. If you want to re-partition the drive while it already has some data on it, I think you need a special program for that.
Partition Magic is one that comes to mind, there are others. -
Pins = jumpers?
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Most of the time the jumpers stay the same.
As for partitioning it, the easiest way is to put it in you old laptop, and load up a Windows disk. Format and partitioning from here takes only a few minutes, and is very hassle free. -
For external hdd's, you can set the jumper pins to master or slave...it makes no difference.. but dont set it to the 3rd options, sorry forgot what its called.
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Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by nlevy, Aug 8, 2007.