I have an old external 3.5-inch HDD. For lack of a normal SATA-USB cable, I want to use its enclosure to connect a 2.5-inch SATA SSD to my PC's USB port.
The HDD enclosure has a separate AC power cable. When I opened up the enclosure, I saw the AC power goes directly into the PCB, which has a...
Got an internal HDD which I connect via SATA/USB as external drive.
Two problems:
the HDD shows up healthy in Crystal Disk Info, but doesnt have a drive-letter.
In Disk Management, the partitions show up in the lower window, but not in the upper.
As this HDD still has an Ubuntu installation...
I have little experience with legacy hardware, so please excuse my confusion.
So long story short, I don't want to buy a new DVD drive. I'll never use it and it's not worth my investment. I do have an old, legacy Sony DVD ROM (circa 2006).
The older DVD drive utilises an IDE connector (of...
I have a HP p7-1003w running Amd Athlon II X4 650 processor 3.2 GHz. I just upgraded the Video card and was looking into upgrading the processor to a faster one but all the options above mine on my list are slower for some reason. Can someone please help me. Maybe i'm just reading it...