Swappable Laptop Hard Disk?

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Ok, been getting too many worms on my laptop downloading games. I want to keep it clean by having a separate harddisk to install games.

Is there an accessory (like a ribbon cable or something) that will allow you do easily swap the hard disk of your laptop from outside of the laptop?
 
Downloading games from bad websites or p2p software will get you infected. Best recommendation would be to not download from where you are getting them.
 
You are pretty much limited to the interface hardware available on your laptop.

This could range from USB to eSATA to a docking interface.

Determine what interfaces you have and then get an external drive that will use that interface.

Like johnb35 said, don't download stuff. Not being hit with umpteen pieces of malware is worth the price of legal software.
 
Dngrsone said:
You are pretty much limited to the interface hardware available on your laptop.

This could range from USB to eSATA to a docking interface.

Determine what interfaces you have and then get an external drive that will use that interface.

Like johnb35 said, don't download stuff. Not being hit with umpteen pieces of malware is worth the price of legal software.
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I wanted something that allows you to boot WinXP from too. So USB is not an option as my Dell 640M laptop does not seem like it can boot from USB.

So, there is nothing like an extension cable to connect your HD to the laptop's internal HD interface so you can have your HD outside of your laptop?
 
Well, you could buy a second drive for your computer, clone the one you have now, and then swap drives as needed.

It would be a hassle, but it would accomplish the task.
 
Dngrsone said:
Well, you could buy a second drive for your computer, clone the one you have now, and then swap drives as needed.

It would be a hassle, but it would accomplish the task.
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I have two extra (old) HDs for my laptop sitting around. But, it's a hassle to have to open it up to swap the HD every time I want to play some games.
 
Dngrsone said:
Yeah, I should've mentioned that. :rolleyes:
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Indeed. :P

Anyways, I think something like this might solve my problem:

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I think his plan is to have the cable hanging out of the laptop and then plug in whichever drive he wants to use at the moment.
 
Dngrsone said:
I think his plan is to have the cable hanging out of the laptop and then plug in whichever drive he wants to use at the moment.
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OK thanks, I get it now. OK maybe I don't get but I understand what you are saying.:D

Since we are clearly going to be extreme on this. I mean cable hanging out and all. How about he removes the optical drive. Get the bracket so he can put in HDD? Then when he boots he can select what drive in BIOS. No wires hanging all self contained?;)

No guarantee this 100% works I am just thinking?:)
 
powerpack said:
OK thanks, I get it now. OK maybe I don't get but I understand what you are saying.:D

Since we are clearly going to be extreme on this. I mean cable hanging out and all. How about he removes the optical drive. Get the bracket so he can put in HDD? Then when he boots he can select what drive in BIOS. No wires hanging all self contained?;)

No guarantee this 100% works I am just thinking?:)
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Eh? Is optical drive interface SATA?

Potential problem (the worm can "see" the other hard drive and infect it).
 
yes some optical drives use SATA. Why don't you just run malware bytes and CCleaner to get rid of the worm?
 
FXB said:
yes some optical drives use SATA. Why don't you just run malware bytes and CCleaner to get rid of the worm?
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He consistantly get virus from p2p downloads, so he is try to protect the application drive from been infected, but be careful, some virus might taget the cpu and make some instruction to loop the cpu and damage it eventually.
Good luck.
 
paulcheung said:
He consistantly get virus from p2p downloads, so he is try to protect the application drive from been infected, but be careful, some virus might taget the cpu and make some instruction to loop the cpu and damage it eventually.
Good luck.
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He's downloading from a bad source then but p2p downloading is against forum rules
 
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