Internal USB thumb Drive

Dapman02 · 08-18-08, 12:50 PM

Alright, here's one for you guys. I want to plug a usb thumb drive internally so I can back up my games and not have to worry about losing them because of a reformat (which seems to happen about once a month

). Is there a way to do this cleanly

EmAn · 08-18-08, 12:54 PM

You might be able to if you have a USB Pci card

Dapman02 · 08-18-08, 01:08 PM

What I was hoping to do is plug it into the USB port on my motherboard if possible.

VinnyTAMU · 08-18-08, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Dapman02

What I was hoping to do is plug it into the USB port on my motherboard if possible.

Take a look at this: LINK

CGR · 08-18-08, 01:52 PM

WHy waste the money? Just plug it into one of your rear usb ports. You can either leave it plugged in or unplug it when your done backing up.

VinnyTAMU · 08-18-08, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by CGR

WHy waste the money? Just plug it into one of your rear usb ports. You can either leave it plugged in or unplug it when your done backing up.

Or you could buy a cheap 3ft male to female usb cord and run it into your case via an open case slot.

CGR · 08-18-08, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by VinnyTAMU

Or you could buy a cheap 3ft male to female usb cord and run it into your case via an open case slot.

Again, why do that? Unless all the usb ports are currently used, front and back.

VinnyTAMU · 08-18-08, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by CGR

Again, why do that? Unless all the usb ports are currently used, front and back.

He probably doesn't want anything (more than currently sticks out) sticking out the back of his case.

gangaskan · 08-18-08, 03:20 PM

why not just buy a 2nd hard drive? wouldn't that be just as easy?

Dapman02 · 08-18-08, 04:55 PM

And you all call yourselve's modder's

why do we do half of what we do to our computers.
I just want to start a project, also I want this to be as secure as possible, and seeing as windows won't install on a flash drive, than there isn't as big of a chance that I'll over write it.
Also, usb drives on the outside, can still fall off and be lost/broken.

Evilsizer · 08-18-08, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by VinnyTAMU

Take a look at this: LINK

OMG!!! i visit that site often and didnt know they had that. i was tring to find something like that. that way i could get the wireless nic and transmitter for the mouse in the case instead of on the back usb ports. here i was starting to think i would need to make my own since i found nothing. man o man! thanks for the link Vinny!

Dapman02 · 08-18-08, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Evilsizer

OMG!!! i visit that site often and didnt know they had that. i was tring to find something like that. that way i could get the wireless nic and transmitter for the mouse in the case instead of on the back usb ports. here i was starting to think i would need to make my own since i found nothing. man o man! thanks for the link Vinny!

0_o
That sound's awsome, I might have to do that too

Evilsizer · 08-18-08, 05:11 PM

yea dap i was thinking about that,a while back, when i started to ponder a "Atom" farm for seti. using the internal USB headers to house the Wireless nic and the Thumb drive that would have linux on it. that way i didnt have to worry about thing on the back getting broken.

theELVISCERATOR · 08-18-08, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Evilsizer

OMG!!! i visit that site often and didnt know they had that. i was tring to find something like that. that way i could get the wireless nic and transmitter for the mouse in the case instead of on the back usb ports. here i was starting to think i would need to make my own since i found nothing. man o man! thanks for the link Vinny!

If you have a steel case I don't know how well it will transmit through steel however..

ever drive under a bridge and have the radio cut out?

Dapman02 · 08-18-08, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by theELVISCERATOR

If you have a steel case I don't know how well it will transmit through steel however..

ever drive under a bridge and have the radio cut out?

A bridge is just a lil' bigger than my case

Evilsizer · 08-18-08, 05:30 PM

well there is way more steel in a bridge then the case. im using some cheap case with some thin steel so it shouldnt be to bad.. either way my usb wireless nic is attached to a long USB cable so i can get good signal.

jiggamanjb · 08-18-08, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by VinnyTAMU

Take a look at this: LINK

Man, that think is slick! I didn't know they made those either!

FYI, I think you can get a USB 2.0 PCI card on ebay for about that price also.

ou_phidelt · 08-18-08, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by VinnyTAMU

Take a look at this: LINK

I may have to try one of those with my bluetooth dongle.

corruption · 08-18-08, 07:46 PM

Just be sure that if you reformat, you do NOT format the USB stick. It is very easy to do if you're not paying attention and are trying to figure out why the unformatted partitions won't merge.

lol

theELVISCERATOR · 08-18-08, 08:25 PM

speaking of formatting usb thumbrives, I have a tool from HP I used to make a bootable USB driver for flashing my bios...worked quite well actually...

Is it just windows you are not supposed to use to format a usb drive?

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Dapman02 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Overland Park, KS	And you all call yourselve's modder's why do we do half of what we do to our computers. I just want to start a project, also I want this to be as secure as possible, and seeing as windows won't install on a flash drive, than there isn't as big of a chance that I'll over write it. Also, usb drives on the outside, can still fall off and be lost/broken. __________________ Desktop: Return of Deneb Processor: AMD Phenom II 955 @ 4.2Ghz Cooling: TRUE Push/Pull GPU: Visiontek 5850 Core 875Mhz/1175mhz memory Motherboard: MSI 880G-E45 Case: CM Storm Enforcer RAM: 2x2gb Samsung generic HDD: Samsung 500GB 5400RPM OS: Windows 7 64-bit Christian Overclocker
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Evilsizer Senior Fourm Spammer Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Austin,Texas	yea dap i was thinking about that,a while back, when i started to ponder a "Atom" farm for seti. using the internal USB headers to house the Wireless nic and the Thumb drive that would have linux on it. that way i didnt have to worry about thing on the back getting broken. __________________ i7 920@3.6ghz \| Asus R2G \| GK F3-12800CL7D-4GBRH \| Galaxy GTX660 GC \| C650TX \| OCZ VERTEX EX 120GB, VERTEX 250GB i3 330m \| Jetway NF98 \| 2x2gig DDR3-1066 \| pico 120WI i5 2450 \| Jetway JNF9G-QM77 \| 2x2gig DDR3-1333 \| WIP "I Love To Camp!" "Commensing Shock Therapy!" I'm jonnyGURU of jonnyGURU.com and we don't overload PSU's - JonnyGURU HeatWare
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