Internal Hard Drive as an external Hard Drive
by awildey May 7, 2007 11:39 AM PDT: Tom and Brian, I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, or if the question has been answered already, but I'm watching CNET TV Live late and I have a great solution for the caller who wants to connect an internal hard drive as an external one. It is:
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102" target="_newWindow">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102</a>

I have one and think it's great. It allows me to easily access another persons hard drive on my computer without removing it. It allows you to use any style hard drive, 2.5 and 3.5 IDE and SATA 150 (not sure about 3.0 Gb/s actually, but it will do exactly what he wants. Plug-and-Play no drivers for win XP.; Like this Reply to this comment

Dont want to unscrew hard drive
by iblden May 8, 2007 2:25 PM PDT: regarding the callers need to scan the hard drive without pulling from the system.

You can use a "portable app" version of an anti-virus such as clamwin on a USB drive. (The portable app version should be the same as the PC it is to be used on). You can then run the Portable Anti-Virus on the internal drive.

Another option is to open the PC, and attached the hardrives internal data cable to a device like the one the the comment identifies. The device will let you attached a drive via the USB cable.; Like this Reply to this comment

Licensed Software
by vignesh6984 May 9, 2007 5:01 AM PDT: I was watching the 4th week of CNET TV Live. A guy on the phone asked about how he can scan for viruses on other people's computer without removing the hard drive. My understanding of Anti Virus software is that when you license it for yourself then it is only yourself that can use it, no body else. It seemed to me like the person on the phone was probably running a small computer support business or maybe just helping friends out. Either way it is important that if he does do something like that he should use a software that is for public domain and free to distribute.

Having said that it might be possible for him to share the drives he wants to scan and map them as a network drive using either a hub or router, ofcourse limited hugely by the the bandwidth.; Like this Reply to this comment

Licensed Software
by vignesh6984 May 9, 2007 5:01 AM PDT: I was watching the 4th week of CNET TV Live. A guy on the phone asked about how he can scan for viruses on other people's computer without removing the hard drive. My understanding of Anti Virus software is that when you license it for yourself then it is only yourself that can use it, no body else. It seemed to me like the person on the phone was probably running a small computer support business or maybe just helping friends out. Either way it is important that if he does do something like that he should use a software that is for public domain and free to distribute.

Having said that it might be possible for him to share the drives he wants to scan and map them as a network drive using either a hub or router, ofcourse limited hugely by the the bandwidth; Like this Reply to this comment

message from the original caller:
by bonedaddy4u1111 May 12, 2007 1:22 AM PDT: Thanks for all your helpful input everyone. vignesh6984 was right about me wanting to do this to help my friends out but also maybe take it a step further and possibly make a small business out of ridding the virus scum off ppls computers quickly and effectively. thank you iblden I have tweaked my 2GB cruzer titanium to run some security apps such as Adaware and Avast. But I can not pull this off with the good programs (kaspersky, spysweeper with AV, Norton, etc). I believe I am going to take awildley's advice and try the SATA/PATA to USB adapter. However, I have found three different versions and would like ppls input as to which I should go with...

1.) <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102" target="_newWindow">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156102</a>

2.) <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://compusb.stores.yahoo.net/miusb20tosaa.html" target="_newWindow">http://compusb.stores.yahoo.net/miusb20tosaa.html</a> or,

3.) <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.cooldrives.com/ide-ata-adapter-sata-hard-drive-adapter.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.cooldrives.com/ide-ata-adapter-sata-hard-drive-adapter.html</a>

Thanks again
Jim; Like this Reply to this comment

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