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I use an external USB enclosure with it's own power supply. &nbsp;Occasionally I put the drive in another computer as a second drive. &nbsp;Or if I need to read a Windows drive without the operating system interfering, I use one of the Linux Live CDs in the same computer with the drive.
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I use an external USB enclosure with it's own power supply.  Occasionally I put the drive in another computer as a second drive.  Or if I need to read a Windows drive without the operating system interfering, I use one of the Linux Live CDs in the same computer with the drive.

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Since about 5 years SATA drives are usually used. Before that IDE drives were the most common, and a little earlier SCSI drives were used in &quot;Highend&quot; workstations. <br />
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so it is either of these
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Since about 5 years SATA drives are usually used. Before that IDE drives were the most common, and a little earlier SCSI drives were used in "Highend" workstations.


so it is either of these

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I'd rule out SCSI as also they were more often used in servers than in PC's.
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I'd rule out SCSI as also they were more often used in servers than in PC's.

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You can tell what kind of drive you have by looking up the drive model in the manufacturer's website, or by looking at the connector next to the power plug.<br />
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SATA <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA</a><br />
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IDE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA</a><br />
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SCSI <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector</a><br />
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Save yourself some money and hook up the drive directly to the motherboard.
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You can tell what kind of drive you have by looking up the drive model in the manufacturer's website, or by looking at the connector next to the power plug.

SATA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA]

IDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA]

SCSI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector]

Save yourself some money and hook up the drive directly to the motherboard.

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read a desktop harddrive<br />
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what type of enclosure is needed<br />
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are there different types of desktop harddrives
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are there different types of desktop harddrives

read a desktop harddrive

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