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The best solution to this question is to visit your local computer store such as best buy or staples. The company will be able to help you purchase an external hard drive for your computer.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoOne can buy an external hard drive USB at any local computer store. If your neighborhood lacks a computer specialty store, you can just as well head to a local staples or best buy.
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What type of cable do I need to connect an external hard drive to my Mac?
Most external hard drives come with the necessary USB cable. Most electronics retailers carry USB cables if you need to buy an extra.
Can external hard drives be used as internal hard drives?
Most external hard drives can be used as internal ones. Provided that the IDE, SATA, or SCSI interface of the external hard drive is the same as the desktop's system board hard drive interface. Users can remove the USB casing and proceed to plug the data and power cables into it. The external drive, just has an additional component, that's used to hook up with the USB port.
Which is the cheaper and best external hard disk data 2 tb?
One of the cheaper and best external hard drive options is the WD My Passport 2 TB External hard drive. The WD My Passport 2 TB External hard drive is portable, and cost about $69.99 before taxes. The hard drive has an average of 4.5 star, and good reviews from customers. If you are looking to buy a desktop hard drive, the better option would be a Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard drive. This hard drive would cost about $84.00 before taxes. The Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard drive has an average of 4.5 stars, and all the reviews from customer are good.
Where can one buy an external hard drive?
One can buy an external hard drive from a number of places. Shops that deal with PC/computer components and parts such as PC World or Comet have external hard drives that you can buy. You can also use the internet and use online websites to purchase an external hard drive.
If I buy a external tape drive reader, will it be compatatible with USB 3.0?
External tape drives will not be compatible with the upcoming USB 3.0 specification, however USB 3.0 will be backwards compatible with it.
What type of hard drive should you consider?
Before purchasing an external hard drive, consider what will be compatible with your computer. Most hard drives support USB 2.0 and FireWire. After considering compatibility, it's a good idea to buy a hard drive with as much storage space as you can afford.
Is it better to install more memory or buy an extra external hard drive if the c drive is nearly full?
personally i'd say buy an external hard drive, as it will be much easier
Wd mybook 320 gb external hard drive will not recognize as a usb 2 even though it is plugged into a usb 2 port?
Your USB port might be broken, therefore you will have to buy a USB extension from your local I.T store, try another normal USB to see if it is broken if not there might be something wrong with the WD external hardrive.
How do I connect an external hard drive to my laptop?
External hard drives are a great idea for backing up the data on a laptop. The connection can be made in one of two ways - using a USB cable or a firewire cable. Which cable to buy depends on the ports present on your laptop and your external hard drive. Once the drive is connected correctly, you will see a new icon in your computer's file browser or explorer window representing the drive.
Want to by hard disk external 2tb or above pls suggest which one to buy?
According to recent consumer reports, My Passport is considered the best external hard drive on the market. With over 2TB storage capacities, this USB based drive is easy to use and compatible with a range of systems.
Is a floppy disk external?
No. An internal floppy drive is connected into the motherboard. It cannot be disconnected from the mother board and function as an external device. However you can buy the external floppy drive and then plug it into a USB port on your computer.If you want to have a floppy drive work externally, you need to buy one that is designed to work with USB connection to your computer.
If you have a computer with Win XP Pro on it how can you install a hard drive out of an old computer running Win 98?
There are several ways to do this. Perhaps the easiest is to buy an external housing for the drive, and connect it via USB to the WinXP Pro computer. There are many such USB hard drive housings. Look for 'external USB hard drive enclosures' or 'external USB hard drive cases'. This is easy to do; it assumes that the WinXP machine has a USB port, a very reasonable assumption these days (2005). It also provides flexibility, as you can then use that hard drive from the Win 98 machine on any computer with a USB port. The traditional way to do it is to open up the WinXP Pro machine's box and see if there is room to physically locate the drive in the machine, and also to see if there is a connector type for the hard drive you want to install (from the Win98 machine), most likely a 40-pin IDE connector. Then its a matter of setting jumpers on the drive, usually to change it from 'master' to 'slave' mode, and connecting the ribbon cable between the computer's motherboard and the disk drive.
