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Fortunately all the drives are direct SATA connections

I completely agree with your points and I realize my initial plan won't work. However, in defense of this old beast, it does have a side caddy for a 2.5" drive that is pops out with a switch. Thanks

Glad you found a solution. Long live firewire! LOL

Not sure if you're still working on this but I think there might be one way to do it. Your laptop has 1 mPCIe slot for the wifi card. You could remove the wifi card and install one of these: https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/mpex1394b3 This will give you firewire and it has the...

OK, that settles it. I'm going to have to get a drive and start fresh. Thanks again.

Great points, USAFret & Lafong. Looks like this is going to be a little more painful than I predicted. Crap. I was also thinking I could just move the drive back and forth depending on where I'm working but that's definitely out. Thanks for the replies.

Thanks for the reply. No primary drive or OS in the new machine. I was originally thinking it would be a piece of cake to just move the drive but the more I think of it, I think I might have to start from scratch.

I have a Dell M6800 laptop. It is running Windows 10 Pro. I recently got another M6800. The key differences are that one has an I7-4800MQ processor and the other has an I7-4930MX processor. Both have the same Nvidia video card. Also one has a touch screen and the other doesn't. Other than that...

That's a good point. A 3.0 cable has 9 conductors. That might make it possible. You're probably right about the reliability of the thing. There is probably a reason these can't be found anywhere and there are no reviews. If it was cheaper, I might just try it, but it seems there is a high...

Expresscard 34 to 2 PCI-E cards. Is this even possible? I have a Dell M6800 which I use for a firewire based audio recording platform. Until now I have been using Expresscard Firewire adapters without issue. Recently I have had the need to simultaneously run 2 separate firewire devices which...