[DNA man]

I have an old EZ Quest CDRW external firewire drive which is very slow and I have since upgrade to a new CD_RW drive.

This got me to wonder could I take out the CDRW drive from the EZ Quest case and pop in a new hard drive? Would it then be a case of hey presto, I have an external hard drive instead of an old no good CDRW drive?

In side the EZ Quest housing is the standard IDE connection between the PCB and the CDRW-drive module. It should work should n't it. Or would I have to do something on the software side of things?

Can any one say if there have tried this or if it would work or not?

Cheers.

[::maroma::]

Have never done it before, but I would wager that this would work just fine. Give it a whirl! I think the worst thing that would happen is the drive wouldn't mount.

[m2bored]

It should work...but you wont know unless you try...

[stevesnj]

Originally posted by DNA man:
I have an old EZ Quest CDRW external firewire drive which is very slow and I have since upgrade to a new CD_RW drive.

This got me to wonder could I take out the CDRW drive from the EZ Quest case and pop in a new hard drive? Would it then be a case of hey presto, I have an external hard drive instead of an old no good CDRW drive?

In side the EZ Quest housing is the standard IDE connection between the PCB and the CDRW-drive module. It should work should n't it. Or would I have to do something on the software side of things?

Can any one say if there have tried this or if it would work or not?

Cheers.

I tried this with my QPS 8x CD-rw drive made in 2000 and it didn't work. The only thing to go is to try it. Hope it does!

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

It should work fine. Any drive housed in an external case should be jumpered to master, so just be certain of that.

If your enclosure is older, and originally used for a slower optical device that doesn't require a faster chipset, it may not be the fastest external HD, but still useful for storage.