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Hi,

Does anyone know if it's possible to connect an internal 2.5" HD, externally? What I'm wanting to do is, connect my old PB HD to another PB. Is there maybe a cable that could connect it via firewire, or something similar?

Thanks for any help.

[David Hagan]

Well, here's the deal...you can buy an external firewire drive enclosure that will fit notebook size hard drives, such as the ones that come out of the PowerBook.

But if the drive is in an existing PB and it has firewire, you can make it a firewire slave drive by pressing and hold the T key when the PowerBook starts up, this is called Target Disk mode. As soon as you see the FireWire logo on the screen, you can let go and attach it to another PB. The slave will appear on your other PowerBook as a hard drive, and you can do what you need to do. When you are done with the slave, eject the disk on the PowerBook by dragging it to the Trash, and then holding the Power key on the slave PB until it shuts off.

[mainemanx]

Is this what you want?

http://www.usm.maine.edu/~phillips/cutie01.jpg

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Originally posted by mainemanx:
Is this what you want?

http://www.usm.maine.edu/~phillips/cutie01.jpg

that's exactly what I'm looking for. I managed to buy a 2.5" enclosure, with a firewire connector.

David, I could use the target disk mode, but I wanted to pull the HD out of the PB and use it without having the other PB lying around, cheers for the info.

thanks.