can I install windows server 2012 on an external hard drive?

Thijs

Hello, I have an 250GB external hard drive and I was wondering if I could install windows sever 212 on it without making any changes to my windows 7 computer, and how do I do that?cI want the drive to contain the operating system and have it be a standalone from my computer, is that possible?

thanks! Thijs

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Short answer: No, you can not.

Explanation: Software installed in a windows environment adds information to the registry, additional information to tie everything together. The registry is part of the OS on your C: drive. As long as the ext. h.d. is attached to your own computer, it will find the necessary registry information; but the moment you connect it to a different computer, the registry information will not be there, and the program (server 2012, in this particular instance) will fail.

Sorry! :-(

Good method or software to mirror an external hard drive?

Rich

I have consolidated a bunch of external hard drives, deleted garbage, etc. I am very organized, and managed to get all the photos on one drive with a lot of room left. I have an identical empty drive. I would like a method to copy the drive with photos to empty drive (mirror) then store the copy in my safe deposit box. I would bring it back every couple of months to update and add new photos. I want a system that will automatically recognize and add only new stuff, so it is easy. What is the best method or software to do this? I use windows and mac, but drives are NTFS, my Macs read/Write NTFS and my PCs read write Mac drives, so it is not an issue where I do it (but I would prefer mac, as that is my mainstay) if pc is best solution, I'll just move the drive when I update.

All photos are stored in date description folders starting with year, and may have sub folders for RAW and JPEG. I also use lightroom, so I am going to clear lightroom library and sync to new consolidated drive. An Example folder might be "2012-02-21 Family Dinner" and that folder may have just JPEGS or 2 sub folders for Jpegs and RAW. This ensures true chronological order.

Any Suggestions? I just don't want to do it manually as I am afraid I will miss somehing, or spent time overwriting data.

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I do something similar,

On the drive i permanently connected, i have 1 folder in the root of the drive and all my other folders and files in that.

on my backup drive i make a folder with the date as name and when i connect my backup drive i just drag the 1 folder (containing everything) from my permanent drive to the folder i made with the days date on it on my backup drive.

This way i have a few full copies of my permanent drive, and just delete the older ones after a few months.

I am by no means saying this is the "correct" way of doing it, but this way a dont need any 3rd party software and i can backup to any backup drive by just drag and dropping 1 folder.

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external hard drives.....rpm speed vs bus speed?

bastian915

wanting to get an external hard drive for my laptop....looking at different manufactures and wondering if at a fairly good bus speed like in the Firewire 400 connection if there really would be much difference between 5400rpm and 7200rpm. I'm just wondering because the portable bus powered hard drives seem to come with 5400rpm and the desktop versions can go a bit faster.
Hey wizard of OZ thanks for the post....wondering if it would then be worthwhile (since the laptop only has firewire 400) to get a firewire 800 express card for the faster bus speed.

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To start with the drives in external hard drives are the same as you have in a desktop. The difference between 5400rpm and 7200rpm is that the faster you turn the disk platters the faster you get to the data and reduce something called rotational delay which can be most the the time to retrieve data from a drive or write to it. The reason the bus powered drives are slower is that the slower drives take less power. Any external drive is going to be slower than an internal drive because even Firewire is not as fast as an internal bus connnection.
Bottom line it probably does not matter which you get because you should only be using an external drive for backup or moving data via sneaker net. I would suggest that the faster bus is your best bet though.

External Hard drive help?

Elizabeth

I need to purchase an external hard drive and am lost at where to start..
I'll be using it for my photography...at the moment I'm in college so I would say I don't need a professional level of space but something that has a large amount.
thanks! :)
Also please be specific and detailed. I'd love to learn about what Im buying...

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It's hard to recommend a specific model, but one key choice is:
Desktop or portable?

A Desktop drive has a power supply (only ever seen them with external plugtop ones) and is typically cheaper for a particular capacity.

A portable drive has no power supply, and generally requires two USB ports to provide power, both ports must be capable of supplying full USB power, so an unpowered hub is no use, the ports must be on a powered hub or direct from the PC.

For higher performance, if using with a system that has an ESATA port, some drives alos support the faster ESATA connection, as well as the common USB.
USB 2.0 is quite fast, but USB 3.0 is beginning to appear... it should operate at faster transfer speeds (as fast as internal drives or ESATA) where a USB 3.0 drive is connected to USB 3.0, and at USB2 speeds when only one side is USB3.

Other than some very low capacity ones (I've seen 80GB), 320GB is about the lowest capacity commonly seen, and if you had a 16GB memory card in your camera, that would be enough to dump a full card 20 times.

Capacities up to 2TB (2000GB) or even 3TB can be found.
For desktop drives, the "sweet spot" of price vs capacity is usually the 1TB or 2TB models, anything smaller doesn't save that much on the price. Portable drives seen be more around the 500GB mark

Alternatively, you can get a 64GB Flash drive for $54.25 (cheapest one at newegg) - while nothing like the capacity of a hard drive, drop a hard drive and it's probably dead, drop a flash drive and it'll probably still work, much better as a carry around.

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