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February 14th, 2005, 11:48 AM
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I recently made an external hard drive out of an older 4gb laptop hd. Anyways, when i went to format it through windows xp, it did so sucessfully, but did not erase two files/folders. Recycler [which i can manually delete] and a System Volume Information folder which says acess denied when i try to open it. The former file system was fat32, but when i formatted, i used ntfs. Any ideas? Thanks | 
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February 14th, 2005, 11:53 AM
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not sure about your problem, but i'm very curious on how to make an external hard drive
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February 14th, 2005, 12:28 PM
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i just took an old laptop hard drive that i aquired free at my work, and bought one of these http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...145-329&depa=0
it comes with everything you need, unscrew the side, pop the adapter on, screw it back in, then voila..if you have windows xp, plug it in and youre all set. if you dont it comes with a cd with drivers for os's like 98. | |
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February 14th, 2005, 12:35 PM
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the two folders are system folders. recylcler is not strictly needed, but i do believe that the ntfs filesystem absolutely requires the system volume information folder. it think it may be linked to journalling of the filesystem. what exactly is your problem with having these folders on the drive. i think windows may recreate the recycler folder, btw. | |
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February 14th, 2005, 12:48 PM
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Is this connedt through firewire or USB1/2? | |
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February 14th, 2005, 12:52 PM
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so you can turn virtually any hard drive mobile? KICK ASS! | |
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February 14th, 2005, 01:12 PM
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How come the slim drive cases are much cheaper than regular 3.5" | |
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February 14th, 2005, 01:14 PM
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Specifications:
Application: 2.5" hard drives
Material: Aluminum
IDE Interface: Ultra ATA/ 133 & UDMA 5
Interface: USB 2.0
Power: from the host PC extra USB port
Features: Support HDD up to 80G, Aluminum HDD external case for 2.5" HDD with height less than 9.5mm | |
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February 14th, 2005, 01:20 PM
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i'm seriously thinking about investing in one of these. I have a 60 gb hard drive lyin around. | |
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February 15th, 2005, 01:33 AM
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it's usb 2.0, and the reason i want to remove the files is because they're taking up like 20+megs of space...thanks | |
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