Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a bit of help here.  I pulled a 40 GB Toshiba hard drive from my TR3A laptop and want to turn it into an external hard drive.  However, all of the USB 2.0 enclosures that I’ve found only have female connectors in them.  And the Toshiba Hard drive has a female connection.

Sooooo….  Can anyone point me in the dirction of an enclosure (preferably inexpensive) that has a MALE connector to mate up with the hard drive, and/OR can anyone tell me where I can find a female to female connector, so I can get this to work properly?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!

http://sewelldirect.com/usbharddrivecase18alum.asp

I appreciate the link, however, I was talking online with one of the techs at Sewell Direct.  He pulled one of the enclosures and verified that it actually has a female connector in it, so that option is out…

Actually, that’s what prompted me to post here, since I’ve had no luck finding the right kind of connector in an enclosure.

I ran into the same problem with my TR1A HDD when my power supply died and I had to remove the drive and back it up using an external encloser.  I ended up buying one that worked great.  here is a link to his store on ebay:  http://stores.ebay.com/mediasonicenterprisesinc  You may want to email him with the model number of the HDD just to make sure you’re getting the right encloser.  I paid $20 including shipping…lemme know and I can email a few pics of it if you’d like.

Excellent vendor that Mediasonic on eBay. 

In a similar vein, I have a virgin drive in one of those enclosures.  How do I go about formatting it so that the TR2 (with XPPro) will recognize it when connected to the USB port?