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Firewire Enclosure and Formatting?
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mdcarter1
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Nov 26, 2002, 04:50 PM
 
I have a HD in my tower that I want to move you to a firewire enclosure... My question is do I have to re-format the drive or anything? Because saving the 40 gigs of data on the driving is essential...
     
Macola
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Nov 26, 2002, 05:19 PM
 
No, it will mount as it did internally and be recognized by the same OS (i.e., if you had both OS 9 and OS X drivers when you formatted originally, then both will work externally).
     
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Nov 26, 2002, 09:12 PM
 
Make sure the jumpers are set to master on the hard drive. External firewire enclosures usually require the drive to be set as master.
     
chipchen
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Nov 27, 2002, 04:31 AM
 
do what CIA says.. it would work perfectly
     
   
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