Enclosure for MacBook SATA drive

Do I need a special external drive enclosure for my MacBook drive? When I removed it, I noticed it doesn't have the pins where the drive is connected to the computer, but rather two thin, extended pieces that slide into the computer. My Macally enclosures were used with my older MacBook HD which had the pins (that were easily bent). I don't think my current enclosure will allow this drive to be used?
What enclosure would support this drive? It's a Hitachi drive that came with my MacBook (intel).

*"What enclosure would support this drive? "*
Any enclosure made for 2.5" SATA drives.

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i got a 320 gig WD Scorpio drive and noticed it didn't look like it'd fit w/ my StarTech InfoSafe enclosure, which made we worry that my Macbook's drive wouldn't fit either b/c i read the WD drive made a good swap w/ the Macbook drive, then i noticed i got a IDE type 2.5 enclosure and i think i need a SATA type... which is what i thought i was getting, but wasn't careful enough when ordering...
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Check the OWC web site they offer a range of external cases for Mac drives.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MOTGSU2/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MSTG400U2/
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Storage controller driver for 4TB SATA drive

Hi,
I am having trouble initializing a brand new 4TB SATA drive (Seagate Barracuda 3.5") . I am connecting it to my HP Envy 17 (Windows 7 64-bit) through a USB 3.0 hard drive dock for backup purposes only. Initialised it using GPT but nevertheless it refuses to show the true volume of the new HDD and the system keeps on recognizing it as a 1677.9GB drive.
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Hi,
Check with the manufacturer of the external USB dock and make sure that it supports 4 TB hard drives.
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clean
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Now unplug the USB drive and plug it back in. You should get a prompt to format and initialize the HD. Choose GPT and assign a drive letter and label.
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Do I need to install drivers for a sata drive?

I have K7N2 Delta2-LSR and it came with a sata raid driver floppy disk. Mine is just a single drive on which I want to install Windows. I read some where that it is not needed during windows installation unless I want to setup a raid system. Is this correct? My sata drive shows up under the external device icon, the small green arrow icon on the system tray. Is it suppose to be like that or is it because I did not install the sata drivers during windows installation? Any advice please?

What brand and model of SATA drive are you using? I had two other posts on this issue because one model of Maxtor drive that I tried works fine and another model does not work at all.
My configuration is like yours, I currently only have one SATA hard drive connected to this machine. There are multiple PATA drives on the machine and they all work fine together.
Seeing your post made me do more research on my motherboard. Until now, I thought the SATA controller on this board was not capable of RAID. I know know it is, thank you silverferro and Stu

MOVED: Bios settings for single SATA Drive Help

This topic has been moved to Intel P4/Celeron boards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=142931.0

Nope. Didn't work.
I can try things all day but this doesn't make sense. Surely someone knows what bios settings are required (especially on the MSI board site) to set the bios on a MSI 945p platnium motherboard. I have the sata drive plugged into the Sata 1 connector and bios still says it is ide channel 4 master. The computer will boot with just the sata drive plugged in but the problems start when I plug the ide drives in on ide 1 or 2 or 3.

Bios settings for single SATA Drive Help

I have just installed a 945P Platnium mother board with a Pentium 4 3.4 extreme with HT tech.
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Nope. Didn't work.
I can try things all day but this doesn't make sense. Surely someone knows what bios settings are required (especially on the MSI board site) to set the bios on a MSI 945p platnium motherboard. I have the sata drive plugged into the Sata 1 connector and bios still says it is ide channel 4 master. The computer will boot with just the sata drive plugged in but the problems start when I plug the ide drives in on ide 1 or 2 or 3.

2.5" SATA enclosure for Macbook's stock HD?

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Excellent observations Paul, and I don't disagree
with you much. I felt compelled to respond a little
further. I consider myself to be a longtime Windows
expert. I have my own business where I build and
repair Windows computers. When I saw the plans for
Vista I realized Microsoft was going nowhere and
decided to make the switch. I made this switch based
on the information I get from podcasts mainly. I
listen to Leo Laporte, Maccast, and others who had
convinced me that Mac was the way to go. Like you
said in your post... "with windows, there are so many
glitches, intrusions and threats.
Here is my Mac experience, in detail, from purchase
to today:
1: Cannot print to either one of my printers. I
have a brother HL-2070N Laser network printer
connected to my D-Link DGL-4300 gigabit router and an
HP PSC1510 All-in One. I have tried everything.
Drivers, software, add printer panel, share windows
printer, you name it. Mac OSX sees it and when I
print nothing happens! I boot into Windows with
bootcamp and print away on my blackbook under
windows. Windows simply sees my shared HP and my
network printer.
My HP 4050 Color laserjet works just great connected to either my Airport Base Station OR my Airport Express. I use the USB cable, no muss no fuss. Using Bonjour (or whatever it's called now) you open the printer prefs, click the "+" to add a printer and its right there. Perhaps there's a problem with your D-Link "GameFuel" router. Yes, yes I know your Windows computers (even the MacBook in Windows mode works fine with it... okay.... my Apple Airport Extreme units work great with all my Mac's)
2: As I mentioned in a previous post. I lost my
wireless connection last night and booted into
windows where it worked fine. Thought I had it
fixed, however, when I got home today - same thing!
My wirless indicator is flashing on and off and my
CPU is at 76%. When I turn off the wireless CPU
goes to normal.
You already identified the problem and it sounds like an "Archive and Install" of OS X would fix it.
3: Luckily I do not have the RSD issue, however,
when I first got it home it did the RSD for 6 or 7
minutes upon first boot. I hit the power button,
screen would light up and then just cut off. When I
finally got into MAC OS, I did the SMC firmware
upgrade and the issue has not returned (fingers
crossed).
4: As I sit here with my blackbook on my lap, my
legs are burning up, I am sweating and the palms of
my hands hurt. I am hard wired into my router
because my wireless does not work. Luckily I know
how to make ethernet connections and made a 100ft
cable so I could sit in front of the TV while I type
this out. What would a regular consumer do. I have
the tools, connectors, and wire for my business. I
geuss I am lucky?
That SUXS, clearly a problem. None of my MacBook's (all three of them) have ever overheated like that. Never, not once. I'm not discrediting your problem I too am posting for others reading the forum.
5: I am a huge gamer. I have purchased pretty much
every game title that has come to market in the last
5 years. I built my own gaming rig in addition to
the other computers I have at the house and I enjoy
the game experience as much time will allow. Should
I go into detail about the MAC OSX gaming experience.
Don't get me wrong, I knew about this before I made
the switch. The games are simply too few and way
too late to market on the Mac side. This is well
known and simply a market forces issue. I
understand this.
And this is a problem how??? You were already aware of the gaming status before you purchased your first Mac but clearly this IS a problem for you as you felt compeled to mention it.
I'll post my comments; I love the games that I play on all my Mac's. They continue to work and perform and exceed my expectations.
6: I upgraded to iTunes yesterday. Where is my
music? I lost everything. There are question marks
on all my titles. A search of the internet found
that many, many people are having the same issue. It
even made the front page of Digg.
I too upgraded my iTunes and didn't loose any of my songs. I hope you have corrected the problem.
6A: I play movies, videos, podcasts, and the like on
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voice and the video is choppy and warped. These
movies and videos played fine on computer just on
Tuesday, what happened. I noticed that the famed Wil
Wheaton had his music replaced after his story hit
the front page of Digg (after several phone calls to
Apple Support). I didn't work on Star Trek, does
that mean I don't get my music back?
????? I don't know what to say.... as afar as old (PC) videos, are we talking pron or are they important videos that you'd like to fix and convert to a suitable format?
Sidenote: I had to download VLC Player just to get
my videos up and running on my MAC. Windows has an
auto codec download feature so that I don't have to
worry about it. By the way, When I rip DVD's in the
MP4 format on my PC and transfer them to my MAC they
don't play.
See above comment.
Paul, I could go further. My hands are hot, my legs
are killing me and just just put $2500.00 into a
laptop that Apple says is a notebook because I should
not use it on my lap. I have a 1.8GHZ Thinkpad for
work and I need to switch over to it now so that I
can get some work done. By the way, those stickers
that Apple puts in the box of all there products - I
put one on my Thinkpad so everybody would comment and
I could launch into my new found MAC religion. I
have to say that I am having second thoughts.
You are 100% corect, your MacBook should NOT overheat your lap but not ALL MacBook's do that. I'll restate that our three MacBook's do not, nor have they ever gotten so hot we couldn't use them on our laps.
I hope that you respond. Very interested in what you
have to say about my MAC experience.
BTW, to date, I have never gotten a virus in my life!
I have had spyware I must admit. Once I learned
what not to do the issue was over.
That's cool, I have had many people send me email virus' even after I switched to a Mac (about 8 years ago).
Somebody mentioned to me that the Apple forums are
like a hospital...you only see the the posts when
people have issues.
Yes that seems to make sense.
Could that also be the case with
Windows? You only hear about the bad things from
people who don't have a clue how to protect
themselves?
When are there "good" things happening on a Windows computer, no seriously, tell me about them. I can give you an earful about how lame my Dell PC and laptop are.
Mac on man! I will still be fully converted at home
in a few months when I replace my custom built dual
core AMD with a Mac Pro!
Way cool - people on these forums are here to help.
Greg
PS Leo rocks!

Extra power cable needed for a SATA drive in a G4 AGP "Sawtooth"?

If one adds a SATA controller card and a SATA hard drive to a G4 AGP "Sawtooth", will a power cable like the one at the below link be needed, or would the necessary power cabling ordinarily come with the drive?
[http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Micro%20Accessories/SATAPAY>
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That would be Left (or right angle 270º) for the data cable.
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[http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Micro%20Accessories/SATA18L>
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[http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Micro%20Accessories/SATAPAY>
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omar.m wrote:
I have a few spare SATA laptop hard drives
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Since X41's dock also uses UltraBay slim, so this would work. I suggest you to do a serach on eBay or elsewhere for the UltraBay slim to USB adapter, maybe you can find a better.
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Ext enclosure for ex-MBP drive, wanting to get data

Hi
Apple swapped out the drive for my MBP, 2.66ghz. I'd like to try and see if I can retrieve some data since it's uncertain how big a problem the drive was since they replaced the board.
Anyhow, I got a 2.5" usb 2.0 external enclosure from OWC. First, are there precautions I should take against electrical discharge when installing the drive in the ext. enclosure? I used to have one of those things you strapped round your wrist and clipped to a table or whatever but with moving can't find it.
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