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Originally Posted by Anduril
When looking for an enclosure, would this hard drive, which came from a desktop that did not have a 3.0USB port, support a 3.0USB enclosure?
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Nope, the hard drive has its own interface, most like some version of SATA unless it is REALLY old.
What Hemi-Cuda posted or what you posted should both work, I have one of these:
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX39503 just because putting in bare drives is something I do enough of that I don't want to have to open and close an external enclosure over and over.
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Originally Posted by Anduril
Also I took a look at ME since that seems to be the main place to sell any variety of enclosures and I thought the enclosures would be cheaper?
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You could check NCIX or Direct Canada, and if you find something cheaper Memory Express will pricematch. Or use shopbot.ca to do some price comparisons, Newegg.ca has the one HC posted for $20
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...INC-_-12156102
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Originally Posted by Anduril
Also, I'm thinking I have to go through Microsoft for this but I do have a copy of Win8/Microsoft Office 2010 Pro one the hard drive. Would I have to boot from the hard drive through another computer, uninstall Microsoft Office to be able to use the product key again? How about the Win8 upgrade?
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No to both for having to uninstall to use the product key again. For Office you should be fine with installing it and activating it, with Windows 8 that's more complicated, if you're putting it on a completely new computer, you might have to phone in to get it activated (I've had to do that before, they just ask what happened and I told them I was rebuilding the computer with some new components, which I was, be honest).
With previous versions of Windows the OEM versions weren't supposed to be transferred from one PC to another while a full version could, I'm not sure if this restriction still exists in Windows 8. If you got a full version or upgrade version you will probably be ok, but if you got an OEM version it might not be movable.