What External Hard Drive to you recommend?

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Herman Sch

I have Windows XP Home, and am looking to purchase a 350-500 Gig External Hard drive. What do you reccomend?

Answer
Seagate FreeAgent Pro USB/eSATA/FireWire external hard drive (500GB)

check out the review at cnet or browse other reviews in cnet

http://reviews.cnet.com/hard-drives/seagate-freeagent-pro-usb/4505-3186_7-32378630.html?tag=prod.txt.2

How can you format an external hard drive when every computer says "windows cannot format the drive?"?

rob j

I have a western digital 1tb external hard drive. After lending it to a friend I had to format it before I could access it on my computer. I tried but it said the above error message. I've tried on three computers since then all with the same message; i'm sure everything is gone by now but i just want to be able to access it. What can I do?

Answer
use a non-windows system to format the drive. your friend probably had a Mac -- that o/s works differently.

go to cnet.com and look for a downloadable free operating system that runs off of a cd/dvd or floppy drive [whatever you have] -- check to make sure it has the ability to format drives in NTSB format [which is what your Windows box wants to find]. you'll also need USB2 support.

make a bootable disk with this o/s on it and then boot your machine from it. then you should be able to access the external drive and reformat it.

carefully -- the non-Windows o/s can probably reformat your regular Windows hard drive as well.



cheers,

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