SillyDog701

[powerwalk]

I have a LaCie 80 gig Porsche external firewire drive, and have cloned my hard drive to it using Acronis software. Is there anyway that I can remove the LaCie drive from its case and install it as the master drive in my computer. My original drive is four years old, and after getting quotes for installing a new drive and transferring the data, this method appears to be the most cost effective. Is it possible to do this. The LaCie support site says that you can't boot from it as an external drive.. Thank you

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[Antony]

I won't suggest this method.

If LaCie uses standard hard drive in this external drive, you can do so, however I doubt the case.

If you are able to install a new hard drive yourself, it would only cost the price of HDD, which is not expensive nowadays.

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[DJGM]

The answer is ... yes you can, as the HDD inside the LaCie caddy will be a standard IDE type HDD. You shouldn't have
any major problems installing this as an internal HDD in your PC. As long as the BIOS on your PC recognises it as a
regular HDD without needed to make any BIOS configuration changes, the "transplant" should be OK.

Be careful not to damage the HDD when you remove it from the caddy. This could be a quite fiddly procedure.
and will invalidate the original warranty, and any other service guarantee agreements you may have on it.

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