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I just purchased a Eagle external HDD enclosure, and actually used it to put an external drive on my laptop, which apparently has a failing dvd drive (hence a relevent ntldr missing error)
anyways would i be able to run both a hd and a dvd drive off of this single enclosure? i have plenty of ide cables, as well as power splitters...
Name: wanderer Date: February 13, 2009 at 05:50:17 Pacific
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ntldr error doesn''t involve a dvd unless you are trying to boot a dvd.
Not to point out the obvious but why would you think you could run a dvd from this unit? Do you see a cd/dvd slot?
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Name: Greensystemsgo Date: February 13, 2009 at 10:39:19 Pacific
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the drive in the laptop was bad. i was installing windows when it crashed, only to turn on with that error. using a external enclosure, i can hook up a dvd drive and successfully installed windows.
but my question remains, can i use more then one device in one enclosure?
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