Maybe a silly question, but can a hard drive disk be read in an external (or internal) superdrive like any other CD or DVD?
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A hard drive disk isn't like a CD or DVD so it can't be read in a superdrive which I assume you're referring to the Apple CD/DVD reader/burner.
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yes it can be and a lot of times if your operating system crashes you can put the hard drive in an external case and save a lot of your data
1058805
It solely depends what you mean by External HDD. Is it a SATA or PATA drive? Then Yes. If it is one of those USB drives with Type 'B' power port then you cannot use this. (I believe!)
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No - I recommend getting either an external DVD/CD reader, or an external hard drive such as a Western Digital passport that you can store larger files such as installation media, etc. and run those from the external drive.
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It's not that simple, but yes. Suggest you google this question in your browser: "how to transfer data from one external hard drive to another".
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Windows does not read Mac formatted dis as far as I know. I have an external floppy drive that I use with Windows 7 Pro for my wives use in the law office. There is nothing in the specs that says that it will allow Windows to read Mac formatted disc. Sorry
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With some form of conversion kit, but it wouldn't make sense, If you want an external DVD RW, the DVD RW drive with power adapter, etc. would probably cost less than converting this one.
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Yes you should be able to do this using something like Clonezilla or Accronis I believe. However, if you are cloning your main drive to the external, you will not be able to use it during that time of course.
1058092
Hello, Yes. http://science.opposingviews.com/use-external-wd-hard-drive-ps3-10640.html
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I have windows vista and onlydvd/cd drives. I used the external USB 1.44 to read disks I've had for years. It did the job I needed it to do. It did not read all the information on the disks as software has changed for the software I used back then.
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No, you would need an actual External Hard Drive, like a Western Digital 1 Terrabyte drive, for instance, to back up using your Mac's built in "Time Machine" software. This Superdrive is for reading and burning CD's and DVD's to and from your computer. You could burn documents, pictures, etc onto a DVD or CD, but that is much more laborious. Hope this helps.
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No. You would have to by an external adapter for a cd drive. It does however have 2 USB drives.
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No. I believe you can purchase an adapter for the optical drive location and place a second HDD in there. This will replace your current optical drive of course, so you would have to decide if that's something you can live without or you could purchase an external optical drive.
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Sorry, I have not tried that. I got this unit to use with my phone but it should be able to handle reading the external drive
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Yes, it does. Under 'other technical details', ' Optical drive type refers to the cd/dvd drive. DVD Super Multi refers to a drive that reads and writes CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW and DVD-RAM.
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I wouldn't be suprised if some external hard drives use the NTFS system instead of the FAT32. It's easy to reformat it though.
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I don't believe so, but I suppose if the "system without an operating system" can still recognize and read/write to external hard drives then it is possible.
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I don't know about a DVD drive, but I have attached my external hard drive with no fuss at all. It treats it like a memory card. I would worry about a DVD drive, though, needing an extra driver or two.