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Is there portable solution for Windows NT?

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fishlet

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If you have Mac, you can use Fireware. If you use Widnows 2000, XP, you can use USB 2.0. The fireware hard drive enclosure and the USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure deal is floating around at "Hot Deal".



But I am using Widnows NT, is there a portable solution for Windows NT? I need to transfer large data between home and work. I am using Windows 2000 at home, and Windows NT at work.

Thanks!

 
I am pretty sure about NT4 supporting fire wire, but I am not so sure about removable hard drives. Do you know the model/make of the drive setup? Look on their website and see if it is supported in NT4.


Will
 
Yes, my office's computer has Windows NT 4. If removable firewire hard drive is supported by Windows NT 4, then it will be my top choice.

I do need a firewire card and cable for my new dv camcorder.

Maxtor has a firewire external hard drive. On the product description page,

System Requirements:

Available 1394 port on your computer
PC: Pentium II or higher with a minimum 32 MB of RAM
Windows 98 Second Edition/Millennium/2000
Power Mac G3 or higher, Mac OS 8.6 or higher


I doubt if the Windows NT can find the firewire external hard drive.


 
you could probably use an ext. scsi drive (not sure what these are like, havent checked into it ) and a SCSI card.


also, is it possible you could install Win2k on your laptop?
seems like that would enable you to use firewire.
 
Are they both desktop computers?

In that case, you might want to consider one of those IDE racks. It turns any IDE hard drive into a removable drive.

If I'm not mistaken, you plug in an IDE cable to a "cage" and then, you install the HD in an enclosure. The enclosure behaves as a removable HD and you can slide it in to the "cage" and remove it at your will. I am not 100% sure, but I believe that this works on NT4.
 
Yes, both computers are desktop.

This is really a good solution. I found the rack at newegg:

LIAN LI All Aluminum RH600 IDE Mobile Rack for hard drives of ATA 100/66,
7200/5400 RPM. Aluminum face, tray, and rack.
Teflon-coated ATA100 cable. 2 SUNON Dual-ballbearing fans.
Power-Switch lock with keys. 3 LED lights for power, fan, and hard drive.
Installation tools included. Please see images. Model#: RH600. (Need ROUND cables? Click here)

$49.00 before shipping.

Does this need driver? Can I put IDE CDRW drive into this rack?

 
you just put your hard drive in it so its easier to take in and out of a computer than opening it up and taking the screw driver to it... get 2 racks, 1 in each computer, and youll have 2 trays, though if your only using 1 hard drive youll only need 1. its probably the easiet/cheapest solution when WinNT is a factor

the racks are made for a hard drive, not CD drives
 
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