I tested it on a Toshiba 60gb, and another 120gb (can't remember the brand) Both where detected by USB loader first go, i even had an old Compaq 20gb laptop drive and it worked. The IDE enclosure is a cool master x-force. The Seagate drive would not detect at all, not even Geexbox would detect it. I can then load USB loader and play the games without any problem, i can even go in and out of different games. Short verions: Download the operation system/image file. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Pro Open source Both Kodi and Ubuntu are free and open source.
Though for Kodi alone the Open Source drivers are good enough.
For example, if you want to do any gaming on Kodibuntu you need an Nvidia card and install the proprietary drivers. The Westen Digital will only be detected by USB Loader after I've booted Geexbox and rebooted via the Geexbox menu. Images fully overwrite the card’s contents, including the boot loader and the partition table. live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost. Sub-par graphic drivers support Support for graphic drivers is not the best. I can boot onto a Knoppix CD or install Fedora Core 2 on another partition to use to make and install madwifi on Geexbox.
Geexbox does not come with much and it doesnt even have the make command installed.
The sata enclosures i have is a Vantec and i tested it with a Seagate and Westen Digital HDD. I installed Geexbox 0.98 on a new computer and I need to install madwifi on it to get the Netgear wifi card woring. I've tried usb loader 1.1 to 1.5 with 2 different type of usb enclosures with 4 different laptop hard drive. Not sure if this will help or give any insight, or i may just be talking cr*p. I have a feeling the problem is with libogc or the usbstorage module. I tried to run the USB mass storage tester, it bombed with the error message "USBStorage_Open() returned -10000". Best software to partition hard drive Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 Popular disk management functions in a single suite Paragon Partition Manager Universal tool for partitions Partition Commander 9.01 The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.