Can a bag with magnets damage my portable hard drive, ipod, and/or psp?

Joe Benite

I got a bag as a present that can carry all or most of my personal gadgets (WD 160GB hard drive, PDA, iPod nano, headphones, digital camera). The proble is that is has 4 magnets (2 on the body 2 in the flap) and I consider them to be relatively strong. Can this erase my HD//Flash Memory, MSDuo, SD card, or camera?

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It will have a GREAT possibility of damaging your hard drive.
Your PDA shouldnt since it uses flash memory.
WILL not damage your iPod , as long as it is not the video iPods, those have hard drives and are/is possible to be damaged.
PSP will not be damaged,since it uses flash memory
Digital Camera will not, since it uses flash memory.
Headphones already contain magnets.

what is a portable hard drive and what is it for?

AllyKat

and, do you have to get one when you buy a laptop?

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A portable hardrive is just what the name says it is: it's portable and it is a hardrive with data storage. An iPod, in essence, is a portable hardrive. You usually use PH's to back up your files should your computer crash. They used to be Firewire (which is really hard to find anymore), but now everything is usually with a USB connection which is faster. You connect the PH to your computer via the USB port and the computer will usually automatically recognize it as a storage device. Then you can drag-and-drop whatever files you want to put there. A portable hadrive cannot work as a standalone computer.

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How do I keep my music on my portable hard drive and put it on my iPod?

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skibum_us

I have music on my portable hard drive and I want to put it on iTunes so that I can put it on my iPod. How do I do that?

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Copy the music from the hard drive and paste it into a folder. Then, simply drag the music from the new folder.

Can you use an ipod as a portable hard drive?

skullandbo

Can you put word documents, keynote presentations, photoshop documents, and basically any other file on your ipod? I wouldn't mind if the documents aren't viewable, as long as they're transferable. It'd be cool to have an extra portable hard drive that could also play music.

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Yes, you can.

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Why does my portable hard drive not have full memory?

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HomerFlins

I have a portable hard drive, thats supposed to be 120gb but only has 111gb. The files that were already on it can't take up 9gb. Same with my ipod, what gives?

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it's 120gb unformatted. The file system takes up a lot of space. Without going into too much detail, it's basically a database that tells your hard drive where each file is located and how big it is. There is nothing you can do about it - it's like that on every hard drive.

Is there a way to keep my itunes library on my portable hard drive?

ericangelo

All of my music is on my PC. The PC is dying and my primary computer is my Mac Book. Is there a way to keep all of my music on my portable hard drive and have it accessible through my mac? I have an ipod that I want to switch over to my Mac from my PC as well. How do I coordinate all of this? Thank you.

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just sync all they files onto your ipod and transfer them to what and where ever you like

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How do I keep my music on my portable hard drive and put it on my iPod?

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skibum_us

I have music on a portable hard drive that I want to use on my iPod. My portable hard drive can hold more music than my computers hard drive so I put it there. But how do I sync my music to itunes from my portable hard drive then?

Answer
import the music into the library then sync the ipod

How do I keep my music on my portable hard drive and put it on my iPod?

skibum_us

I have music on my portable hard drive and I want to put it on iTunes so that I can put it on my iPod. How do I do that?

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You could also just set iTunes to search removable devices as well.

Can't be more specific because I don't personally use iTunes, and each version of it is different.

But when You do a search for new files to add to the library You'll have an option to check removable drives or the entire system, make sure the portable hard drive is plugged in at the time.


Good Luck!.

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