2.5" ide > USB likely to work?

[mr.z]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150241962638&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=005

^ This one..

My venerable old toshiba has finally given it up. so I'm hoping i can at least make use of the hdd.

I'm running gusty gibbon on various computers and another laptop.

Will it be a standardized plug and play deal most likely? or am i definitely wasteing my time? i'm assumeing it'll work the same way memory sticks do software wise.. but i may be wrong?

Thanks for reading :)

[dbstraffin]

Yeah it will show up as a mass storage device like any flash drive. Only problem is that a few laptops don't supply enough power to the usb to start the hard drive, but I haven't run in to this problem myself.

[mr.z]

triffic, thanks for that very much appreciated.. i'll look out for the power issue as well.

[Canterwood]

Actually, there's specialized USB-cables for that. Look into the brand Icidu for that, I have one.

A cable with 1 plug on the one end, in the drive, and on the other end there's 2, one for transfer and one for extra power. It's a pretty standard cable if you buy an external casing with the official USB input (the regular one, I mean).