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Choosing an external HD - firewire or USB2
Windows XP is simply telling you that you have a USB high speed device [the external hard drive] connected to a USB low speed device [the old Hub]. The stuff will still work because of the backwards compatibility of USB devices. In other words, the Maxtor external drive will function but only at USB 1.1 speed [USB

Archiving, was: "Re: Recording to an external HD"
On the other hand I wonder if I should repartitionate this external HD to have different partitions. Thanx The answer depends on how you intend to use the files once they are copied to an external disk? Also, whether you need compatibility among OSs. I find the tools provided with GNU/Linux are sufficient,

Using Entourage with an external HD
I'm ordering an external USB2/Fireware Hard Drive (the IOGEAR ION 120b). I'll be using it for backing up 2 computers. 1st has Windows2000 with a FAT32 C: drive. 2nd has WindowsXP with a NTFS C: drive. Will this external HD be compatible for both computers? I can format the ext drive with NTFS or FAT32,

HELP! Oktagon 2008 in A3000 probs!!!
I just added another external HD, an Acomdata 250GB, Firewire, pre-formatted as FAT32. I'm running Win XP HE SP2, but didn't convert to NTFS to maintain back compatibility with older systems. I checked the external for errors, including bad sectors, from Properties > Tools > Error Checking before using it.

7500 and External Wide SCSI HD ?
I chose toolkit over the mac hd setup on the advice of many mac people. I was told that fwb's driver was better than Apple's, that compatability wasn't an issue. It would work on any mac with 8.1+. this does not appear to be the case. At this point, I can't reformat, as the drive is half full ( 72 GB),so I'm stuck.

hard drive copy
I think MS has the right idea, releasing the 360 with a regular DVD rom, then talking about offering an external HD/Blue Ray DVD rom once they hit. Did the regular, thick-ass PS2 start coming with the adapter at some point? same(assuming that HD/Blue Ray DVD roms are backwards compatible with regular DVD discs,

Copy big folder from a NTFS partition to an external HD
Plus it's a compatibility thing with older stuff, although with Jobs running the show I doubt much thought goes into that. As far as losing functionality So I used HD SC Setup 7.3.2 or so and made a 32 mb HFS and a 200 mb A/UX volume on my disk. Then on the IIgs I erased the HFS to ProDOS and the A/UX to HFS.

HELP!! System 6 compatible split/join app needed!!
In the available 2 PCI slots I plan to install the DV500 and a SCSI??controller for an external HD or RAID. What external HD/RAID/SCSI controller would you recommend at approx 60GIG? Are there any compatibility issues between the JVC HR-DVS1U / Sony DCR VX2000 / and my PC that I have not raised above?

dual boot w/external HD?
I misspoke slightly, in that I currently use a network backup - all PCs are automatically backed up across the network to an external HD hung on the main PC. .... Cross-compatability is very high, allowing these copies to be read on any similar device. - Improvements are constantly being made,

Reading ext2 on a USB external HD in Windows
I have a 20 meg external Mac HD. If I get a SCSI card for the IIgs, can I format it and use it as an external HD on the IIgs? Absolutely. Speed can be dropped down to 1Mhz for compatibility with emulation of IIe applications. Speed can be increased to 15Mhz with an add-on CPU card. 6. ROM: 128K in the 1986 "ROM

Modify a Mac external HD for a IIgs?
livewire dam92...@yahoo.com EPCDOCTOR Don't know much about mac but did terrminate th external hard drive or does it have an autotereminate feature. Long file names 31 characters 255 characters Obvious user benefit; also improves cross-platform compatibility File name encoding MacRoman Unicode Allows for

Any tips for a new HD for a G3 B&W
Anna myn...@myisp.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support news:7kiji11pqp0k2rje3guvc4o3htqofvgn7d@4ax.com... I just bought a WD 250 External HD for backup purposes. I just read in the documentation that it "is preformatted as a single FAT 32 partition for compatibility with all Windows operating systems.

Experience with SoftPC, MacPlus, System 7?
I was considering an external HD but then spotted that the internal ones 20-50 GB are quite reasonable on ebay. Check Novatech.co.uk last we looked they had Any compatability issues etc? Does buffer size matter ? Ease of fitting? etc. Yeah drop the side panel down, nr the HD on the motherboard you will see a

Backing up laptops to external media
I have a SCSI external HD that is 8 GB. The Power Mac 6100/60 cannot read anymore than 2 GB, from the external HD (at least over a network). I want to add the external HD to the And I'm using MacOS 8.1 [and 8.6 on another hd - but it is incompatible with my Apple DOS Compatibility Card]. No problems at all.

compatibility with CDR/CDRW
What is the pros and cons of going with either one for an external HD. I need to add additional space to a laptop. The drive will not be plugged in all the But check http://www.linux-usb.org/ Working devices list or http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Compatibility. Hm, looks like my VST cd-r/w (Freecom) that

USB vs Firewire for ext HD for a laptop
However, I have an external firewire 80gb HD that is FAT32. If I keep the external drive FAT32 will I be able to write files from my NTFS PC HD to it and vice versa. I would ideally keep my external HD FAT32 as I use it to connect to various PC's. I hope I make sense and would appreciate any advice. TIA.

New here ... Roxio questions
I was with the understanding that I can in fact purchase an external HD. I am planning on buying a ST251-1 (Seagate 40 Meg MFM) and an MFM controller (XT - 8 bit), and external power supply and HD-case. I am planning to connect this to the Third slot in the sidecar. Please --- anyone with prior experience with this

9.0 install didn't help
Zero: this may be a hardware incompatibility issue: the Seagate drive I'm having trouble with may not be compatible with Win XP. (According to Seagate) Could someone post a current link to the hardware compatability list? (HCL) The one in my HELP section is out of date... zero a scris: Buyed an external hd,

Problem unzipping files on external HD
Easiest way is to purchase an EXTERNAL FDHD drive. such drives were sold by Applied Engineering and by Kennect, but I think both companies are out of business now for Advanced Logic Integration, Inc. offers an external HD drive for the Mac SE. Just plug it in and install an INIT and get full HD compatability.

Need Help. External Enclosure USB or Firewire? Make Bootable?
... OE's Identities folder in the OE application folder was the ancient OE 4.5, OS 8 way of doing it but it was still possible in OE 5.0x for backward compatibility. As long as the external HD is mounted. the alias is valid, and Entourage will happily save messages on the Identity folders on the external drive.