External HDD transfer process

PanchoVilla

PanchoVilla

PanchoVilla

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The 120gb IDE hard drive on my shuttle is filling up, and I want to buy an external USB solution. But actually, I'd also like to replace the existing 120G Hitachi drive with a larger samsung spinpoint one (250-400GB) because the spinpoints are renowned to be quieter.

I was thinking therefore, of doing the following:

1 - get ICYBOX caddy
2 - get SAMSUNG IDE drive
3 - replace the hitachi drive in my shuttle with the samsung
4 - use the hitachi in the icybox.
5 - install linux on the new samsung

I intend to clean format the hitachi drive after I've transferred the data onto my samsung.

The thing is, will I be able to access the data on the hitachi drive simply by putting it into the icybox considering it currently has WinXP installed (ie it is not a simple formatted data drive) ?

Also, I'm choosing the icybox as it is the one being recommended here - but does is it fanless?

Many thanks.
 
If you are getting a new drive then go for the SATA2 version unless of course your shuttle doesn't support any SATA port.

you simply put the hitachi drive in the external box and you will be able to access everything via USB, all your data and partitions on the drive will remain unchanged.
 
I have a SN45G shuttle and looking at the specs it seems that I can put in a SATA drive:

spec check

Will I need to get an extra cable or something for my shuttle to connect to the sata drive?

(or does it use the same hdd cable?)
 
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