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I have a portable hard disc 500 gb.
Ram is 1gb, one of my friend told me not to keep the hard disc connected to the pc it makes your pc work slower. Is that true ?
Should i disconnect the hard disc every time before turning the pc off and connected it when the pc is turned.
(I need it every time)
Answer
Why can't you keep it connected all the time? Most modern hard drives will put themselves into 'sleep' if they are not used often to reduce the power consumption and increase the life of the drive.
Modern hard drives are designed to sleep after a certain period of inactivity. This is to conserve energy and is also considered by some to increase the useful life of the drive by reducing wear. In standby mode, the hard drive is in a state of low energy consumption and its platters have ceased to sleep
Depending on the settings of the operating system, the hard drive would automatically go to sleep after a period of inactivity, and thus increasing the lifespan of the drive.
After all, the hard drive inside your computer stays plugged in the whole time, so why should an external one differ?
You can keep it connected as long as you wish ... servers are running for years with their hard drives !
Depends on what you use it for.
I use mine for backup and file transfer, and therefore I only hook it up when I'm going to use it. After all, any disk attached to a computer is in some slight danger of having data corrupted or overwritten, and I don't consider anything normally online to be a satisfactory backup.
I've never disconnected my 750 GB SimpleTech external hard drive from the time I purchased it ( little over a year now)
Why can't you keep it connected all the time? Most modern hard drives will put themselves into 'sleep' if they are not used often to reduce the power consumption and increase the life of the drive.
Modern hard drives are designed to sleep after a certain period of inactivity. This is to conserve energy and is also considered by some to increase the useful life of the drive by reducing wear. In standby mode, the hard drive is in a state of low energy consumption and its platters have ceased to sleep
Depending on the settings of the operating system, the hard drive would automatically go to sleep after a period of inactivity, and thus increasing the lifespan of the drive.
After all, the hard drive inside your computer stays plugged in the whole time, so why should an external one differ?
You can keep it connected as long as you wish ... servers are running for years with their hard drives !
Depends on what you use it for.
I use mine for backup and file transfer, and therefore I only hook it up when I'm going to use it. After all, any disk attached to a computer is in some slight danger of having data corrupted or overwritten, and I don't consider anything normally online to be a satisfactory backup.
I've never disconnected my 750 GB SimpleTech external hard drive from the time I purchased it ( little over a year now)
Is there a way to get the songs off my old iPod onto my new one?
Q. Some of the songs on my iPod are no longer in my library. Is there a way to transfer what's on my iPod to my new one?
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Thank you snake! How are you papi?
Answer
Hey New Moon...how you doin?
This worked for me....give it a crack. It's a bit lengthy but its free!
Option 1:
Assuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/
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Option 2:
The manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.
- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET
·open iTunes
·open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running
·connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing
·open 'My Computer'
·Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'
·open iPod icon in My Computer
·open iPod_Control folder
·you should see a folder named music
·drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive
·after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'
·clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'
·Close that explorer window
·eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.
·disconnect the iPod from the computer
- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window
·File menu \ Add folder to Library \ find that Music folder copied over from the iPod
Your iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!
Long time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:
] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.
] Download this program:
http://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip
(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)
] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.
] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.
] Notes:
- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.
- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.
- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.
- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.
Hey New Moon...how you doin?
This worked for me....give it a crack. It's a bit lengthy but its free!
Option 1:
Assuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/
________________________________
Option 2:
The manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.
- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET
·open iTunes
·open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running
·connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing
·open 'My Computer'
·Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'
·open iPod icon in My Computer
·open iPod_Control folder
·you should see a folder named music
·drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive
·after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'
·clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'
·Close that explorer window
·eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.
·disconnect the iPod from the computer
- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window
·File menu \ Add folder to Library \ find that Music folder copied over from the iPod
Your iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!
Long time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:
] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.
] Download this program:
http://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip
(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)
] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.
] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.
] Notes:
- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.
- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.
- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.
- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.
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