Background Info: I have a Mac G4 with 2 harddrives. One I barely use, except to put stuff i don't use often in.

How should i prepare that hard drive to put in an enclosure?
If I take the harddrive out of my computer is it going to effect my computer at all?
I'm not sure if I have any thing linked to the hard drive. ex. Photoshop using it as virtual ram.
Will i need to partition it at all before i put it in an enclosure?
Any specific enclosures people reccomend?

thanks.

P.S. the reason i'm taking the hard drive out is to use it as a back up drive. Now is there even any reason to do this because my second drive is protected if my computer crashes, or is it not?

10/31/2005 4:55:25 PM

yank drive out.

adjust jumpers.

shove drive into enclosure

just make sure OSX supports the enclosure first.

10/31/2005 5:04:08 PM