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Any way to attach a HDD case to a laptop screen?

  • 21-09-2009 5:37pm
    #1
    Medievalist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭


    This may sound demented, but here goes...

    I'm looking for a way to attach an HDD enclosure externally to a laptop. My previous laptop died and it's successor is a very old, and slow, Dell Inspiron 6000. I've gone from having 50GB of free space.....to a total 34GB! After transferring over only basics (no music, photos, documents over a couple of months old etc) I have under 11GB of space.

    When I'm saving large files, pictures etc, I'm saving them directly to the HDD of my previous laptop, which I am now using as a external drive. This is ok when I'm sitting at my desk but isn't exactly convenient to move around with.

    So I was hoping someone here could give me some advice on attaching an external HDD to a laptop? It's a pretty sturdy machine, and I reckon the screen could support it. But I can't find any attachable enclosures. I'm seriously considering velcro...:o

    EDIT: I obviously want to attach it to the back of the screen, not the front:p


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  • #2
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Not as crazy as it sounds. I had considered something like this for using my g/f's eeepc laptop with a large 2.5" external hdd fixed to the outside somehow. The best I could figure was also velcro like you mentioned. I believe there are glue strips of velcro you could get , attach on side to the laptop LCD cover and then wrap another strip around the external HDD enclosure and stick one to the other. Case of whether velcro could hold the weight of the enclosure and hard drive combined.


  • #3
    Medievalist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭Medievalist


    It's looking like it's going to have to be velcro alright! I'll have to suss out some strong velcro. Did you try it with your gf's laptop in the end? Did it work out?
    I'm going to see if I can get a very short usb cable for it too. Try to keep it a bit neater.


  • #4
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Nah I left hers alone in the end, just leave it plugged in with an external drive hooked up to it, use it as a small bittorrent machine, everythings saved to the external drive , an the eeepc just plods along nicely doing it.


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