Will a portable hard drive play music on aftermarket car stereos with usb port?

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Daniel

I have a 500gb portable hard drive, does it work if I plug it into a stereo with a usb port? Will it play the music?

The stereo I have now only has an aux input so I can't try it out myself, has anyone else tried?

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I must say, sadly the hard drive wont work, since the stereo's usb is not as highly powered as a computer usb port. But a large memory flash drive (30 gb) would work.

Can I transfer my itunes library from my PC to a portable hard drive?

tattaglia2

My PC is getting slow becasue my itunes library is very large. How can I move my music without losing it to a portable hard drive. Also if you can tell me where will new music go after I have transfered the music. (I'm new to iTunes)

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Your hard drive getting full would not slow down the computer unless your hard drive had next to no free space left (meaning less than a couple GB). It's insufficient RAM that slows the computer down (and having lots of programs open at once), not a full hard drive. Defragment your hard drive and that should solve most of your problems.

If you really want to transfer the songs to the external, just go to your Music folder (C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Music in XP, C:\Users\<username>\Music in Vista and Windows 7) and copy the iTunes folder over to the external hard drive.

In iTunes, open up the settings menu and go to "Advanced". The first option there is the location of the iTunes library. Change that to the place that now has the music and you're all set.

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How can I partition my portable hard drive to save files both from my MAC and from an old PC?

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mr blonde7

I just want to save a ton of files from my MAC to my portable hard drive and if possible, also save files from my PC. I was told the hard drive can be 'partitioned' but have no idea how. I'm fairly clueless regarding all things tech so please use keep it simple LOL.

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You have two options.

1) You can format the drive to FAT32 (MS-DOS in OSX) to make it both PC and Mac compatible. This will allow it to be used on both types of system without partitioning. This is the best option, except that this format won't allow file transfers of single files larger than 4GB in size.

2) You can follow the link below to learn how to use Disk Utility to partition your drive, created two partitions on the one drive, format one for Windows(NTFS) and one for OSX(Max OS Journaled). This will give you storage space for both Operating Systems, but you wouldn't be able to copy items between the systems. By default, OSX cannot read and write a NTFS drive, and Windows cannot read and write to a Mac OS Journaled drive.

http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm

Is there a way to install MS Visual Studio Express on a portable hard drive so I can run the program @ work?

Randall

We have Windows 7 at work and I don't have administrator access. I was wondering if I could install on my portable hard drive (not a usb), to practice creating practice c++ programs from work. Does anybody know if and how this can work?

Thanks.

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No I'm afraid not, VSE needs to be installed,it load a large number of DLL's and other tools in to the system directories and modifies the registry. You would be better off using eclipse and gcc which can both be configured to run without being installed.

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Is an external portable hard drive consider a flash based storage device?

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debeth88

I was thinking of installing a large CS4 on a portable hard drive is this possible.

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No, the external hard drives are hard drives, not flash drives.
Hard drives use magnets and stuff to store data, flash drives use circuit components, not moving parts, and tend to be faster.

Yes, you can install CS4 onto the drive (if it's big enough), but it will run kinda slowly compared to your local hard drive, since it's running through the USB cable.

Hope this answers your question.
Good luck!

How do I move my iTunes library from one computer to another?

Jorge

I know this has been asked before, but I can't the information I need.

I have about 1000 songs, about 200 videos (mostly podcasts) a single game, and 300 photos in my iTuned library. Some of them were imported from a CD, so they're in the iTunes folder (which is in "my music) but the others are scattered all over the place.

I've tried the "consolidate my library" option, but I got a "filename is too long or invalid" message, and I have no idea what that means.

So my problem is this... I want to just copy my iTunes music folder onto a large portable hard drive and bring it to my other computer, (which has iTunes installed) and import the whole thing.

But then I don't know how to get all of my songs into one place, where my podcasts are kept, and how to keep all of the info about the songs. (album art, skip count, etc.)

Isn't there some way I could just sync my ipod with my new itunes library instead of the other way around?
I don't have a CD burner, so that option is out.

If I go into the media files on my ipod and import those, will they keep all the information such as titles, skip count, album art, etc?

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What you can do is burn your library to a disk. You click on file and back up to disk. Then it will burn a couple of disks which you import into your new library.

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