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   Carlos E. R. to Andy Burns   
   Re: External hard drives and enclosures   
   19 Feb 26 19:32:38   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-19 14:19, Andy Burns wrote:   
   > Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have one "enclosure", one of those that you plug the hard disk in   
   >> vertical position, pins down, half of the disk outside (sorry, I'm not   
   >> at home, so I don't remember the model). A caddy, I think is the name.   
   >> Well, it sees the sectors differently than the disk connected on other   
   >> boxes or directly to the computer.   
   >>   
   >> Nasty.   
   >   
   > That type are "ok" if you're cloning several disks every day, or   
   > swapping between multiple system disks to test variations ...   
   >   
      
   I use it to do an offline backup of my desktop machine. But as it   
   changes the sector size and count, I can only read the resulting hard   
   disk in that caddy.   
      
   Clone a hard disk? hardly, when one of the disks has a different sector   
   size.   
      
   --   
   Cheers,   
           Carlos E.R.   
           ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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