Suggestions - Hard Drive from Samsung Laptop

Hi

My wife's Samsung laptop has gone belly up but the hard drive is OK.
She also has a cracking Liteon external DVD RW (only 2 months old). It
has been suggested that we could slap the HD into a case and use it as
an external USB drive as my wife is probably going to buy a new laptop
which all seem to have DVD RW drives.

My desktop is 8 yrs old with WIN 98 and 3Gb hard drive that still does
95% of what I want so reluctant to buy a new PC. It will not however
work with either the Samsung HD or Liteon DVD RW. With that in mind now
thinking about putting together a desktop which can use the Samsung
hard drive and the Liteon as the optical drive albeit external rather
than built in.

Is that feasible/practical/economic or would I be better to sell the
Liteon and buy/build a desktop with a DVD RW? By the way already have
an LCD monitor so just the box thing.

Regards

wrote:
Hi

My wife's Samsung laptop has gone belly up but the hard drive is OK.
She also has a cracking Liteon external DVD RW (only 2 months old). It
has been suggested that we could slap the HD into a case and use it as
an external USB drive as my wife is probably going to buy a new laptop
which all seem to have DVD RW drives.

My desktop is 8 yrs old with WIN 98 and 3Gb hard drive that still does
95% of what I want so reluctant to buy a new PC. It will not however
work with either the Samsung HD or Liteon DVD RW. With that in mind now
thinking about putting together a desktop which can use the Samsung
hard drive and the Liteon as the optical drive albeit external rather
than built in.

Is that feasible/practical/economic or would I be better to sell the
Liteon and buy/build a desktop with a DVD RW? By the way already have
an LCD monitor so just the box thing.

Regards


Maybe you could place a card like this in your eight year old desktop ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Custra...82E16816102007

I'm using a card like that (the alower Ultra100 version) in this P2B-S
that I'm typing on right now. One benefit, is the bandwidth it has to
offer, is higher than is available via the Southbridge IDE interfaces.

Paul

Thanks

Still juggling all the options and your contibution greatly
appreciated.

Regards