External Hardrive

So thanks to the recommendation here, I purchased a macbook. It's amazing.

Just one thing I think I need a lot of help with.

I want to take the notebook hard drive from my old laptop and use it as an external hard drive for my mac. I have purchased an enclosure which came with a manual about drivers but not about partitioning or about how to set up the pins.

So what do I do?
- thanks in advance

 

There may be a label on the Hard drive itself which will tell you how to set the pins to make the drive a 'slave' drive. Partioning can be done in Windows if the drive has been formated. If you want to re-partition the drive while it already has some data on it, I think you need a special program for that.

Partition Magic is one that comes to mind, there are others.

 

Pins = jumpers?

 

Most of the time the jumpers stay the same.

As for partitioning it, the easiest way is to put it in you old laptop, and load up a Windows disk. Format and partitioning from here takes only a few minutes, and is very hassle free.

 

For external hdd's, you can set the jumper pins to master or slave...it makes no difference.. but dont set it to the 3rd options, sorry forgot what its called.
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