What will happen if I upgrade from Vista Basic to Vista Ultimate?

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zack126907

I am planning to upgrade to vista ultimate to take advantage of the windows media center. Is there any way to get the media center without the upgrade and will my external hard drive need to be reformatted causing me to lose everything once i upgrade???? Any help will be much appreciated. My computer is a Toshiba Tecra A6 with an Intel Duo Processor 1.83 GHz 1022 Mb RAM and a 32 bit operating system. Thanks for your help

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Hey Zack-
The only way to get Windows Media Center is through Vista Home Pemium or Vista Ultimate- it is not available as a stand-alone download. Here is an article outlining some of the cool features you can take advantage of with Windows Media Center: http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/turn-your-windows-pc-into-a-media-center-powerhouse-on-the-cheap-298408.php

Be sure to backup your data so that in the infrequent case something does go wrong you will still have your data available.

Cheers,
Jeff
Windows Outreach Team

can i replace a failing hard drive with an external one?

ttocs

my dell lattitude d420 netbook has a failing hard drive, can i replace it with an external one? OS and all? i have XP pro
i would like to do it while it still works;if i can replace it with external, how would i go about transfering my OS to it from the hard drive it has now.
i am still a beginner.

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External as in to a USB hard drive? You can't unless you plan to tear open the external drive and swap heard drives with the laptop. But you can only do that if both drives are same connection method ( sata , pata). Easier to purchase a new one install it and clone the drive. You would need to purchase a USB to HDD adapter and the new drive. Try thishttp://lifehacker.com/5517688/how-to-upgrade-your-tiny-hard-drive-to-a-spacious-new-one-and-keep-your-data-intact

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Original Xbox 360 will not recognize external hard drive?

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Stormie Ly

I have a Startech eSATA to USB dock, and it works quite well. I use it as an external hard drive (because it is 500GB and my computer only has 250GB (I have a lot of movies/music so that doesn't last long, haha). I tried connecting my dock to my Xbox 360 (It's the original one, if that helps any) to use as a portable device to watch the movies on my external, but it doesn't register it at all. I have to move the movies from my external, to my internal, and then stream it through Windows Media Center, which is extremely irritating. Why isn't my xbox reading my dock?

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I'm pretty sure that Microsoft made it so you couldn't watch movies straight from a portable device because of how long it would load, but all the potential risk of a possible virus being in the files of the device.

How does portable hardrive work fro xbox 360?

SBFC2011

I'm gonna buy a 4GB xbox 360 and a 250GB portable hard drive to put into it
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-250GB-250G-HDD-Hard-Drive-Disk-Xbox-360-SLIM-4GB-S-/270778417573?pt=AU_Video_Game_Accessories&hash=item3f0ba6c1a5
will this work the same as just having a normal xbox 360 250GB????

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No, it won't work the same.


You can't put a standard hard drive into it. Even though it has a standard SATA outlet, it only recognizes Microsoft hard drives. (you should get the original Microsoft XBOX 360 250 GB hard drive for the 4 GB slim... then it will work the way it should)


You can use portable hard drives as external hard drives (connect them via USB), but this isn't as great as an internal one, because:

- Even though you can use the entire hard drive for storing movies etc that you copy to it from your computer so you can watch them on your XBOX 360

- XBOX 360 will not be able to write to this (read only). If you would like to download purchased games, demos etc from the Marketplace, you can create an XBOX Strorage on it, but as it is an external strorage, it is limited in 16 GB of size. Additional space (if any), can be only used as regular computer strorage.




Solution: get the original Microsoft 250 GB hard drive for XBOX 360 Slim... That's what I will do.

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