Re: Purchase External Hard Drive
From: LVTravel (none_at_not.com)
Date: 10/04/04
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:37:02 -0400
DebbieG, if you have physical space inside your system I would recommend
placing the drive in the computer as a slave drive. The instructions that
come with the drive should explain how. You will then be able to backup to
the drive using any of the software that Yves recommended without the
problem of attempting to get the external drive to work if XP crashes. You
could then boot with the floppy drive (created when you install the backup
software) and copy the drive image/partition back to the main drive.
"DebbieG" <debbieg@accessus-REMOVE-THIS-.net> wrote in message
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> Yves,
>
> Thanks so much for answering my questions.
>
> I found a 120 GB internal hard drive for $99.94. I understand that I can
> buy a hard drive enclosure to use it externally. How do I know which
> enclosure to buy? I've done some searching but I don't know what to look
> for.
>
> TIA,
> Debbie
>
>
> "Yves Leclerc" <yleclercNOSPAM@maysys.com> wrote in message
> news:e9IHabjqEHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Most Pentium 4 motherboards have USB built into it, so you may not need to
> buy a USB adapter. Check with the motherboard manual/manufacturer.
> Firewire is an add-on adapter and is normally used in digital editing.
> However, if your motherboard does have USB 2.0 ports, you may want to buy
a
> USB 2.0 add-on adapter board.
>
> 8 MB of cache is way better than 2 MB. However, since you are using it as
> backup, you may not need it. 8 MB would be useful if you were to using
the
> drive as your main drive.
>
> The formatting service is optional. You should have all the tools in
> Windows, or with the drive, to format it yourself.
>
> As for the size of hard drive, I usually recommend getting the exact
> capacity that your main hard drive(s) are in total.
> If you have one drive: the same size as your main drive
>
> If more than one: the total capacity of all hard drives put
> together.
>
> The software is VERY important. You can not just "copy" the drive(s) to
the
> external unit. XP's utilities do not allow a complete copy of the hard
> drive. You will need to locate a drive imaging utility. The two popular
> ones are:
>
> 1) Symantec Ghost
>
> 2) Drive Image -- now owned by Symantec also.
>
> There are other similar utilities but I have no experience with them.
These
> two utilities work quite well.
>
> Y.
>
> "DebbieG" <debbieg@accessus-REMOVE-THIS-.net> wrote in message
> news:%23iYt2MjqEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >I have a Pentium 4, 2.53 GHz, 512 MB RAM, XP Home Edition. I am wanting
to
> > purchase an external hard drive in order to back-up my hard drive before
> > installing SP2. But I am so confused...
> >
> > I am seeing USB and Fire Wire. I'm assuming I need to buy USB but not
> > sure.
> >
> > I am seeing 2 MB and 8 MB cache. I'm assuming that 8 MB is better. But
> > if
> > I'm just going to use this for back-up purposes does it really matter?
> >
> > I am seeing "Hard Drive Format Service". Do I really need for them to
do
> > this?
> >
> > My used space on my hard drive is less than 10 GB. How big a drive
should
> > I
> > buy to back-up?
> >
> > Do I need to purchase special back-up software or just simply copy my
hard
> > drive?
> >
> > Of course, I'm not wanting to spend a whole lot of money on this because
> > I'm
> > going to use it just for back-up purposes. So, any suggestions on the
> > best
> > place to buy this?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Debbie
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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