External Hard Drive

ukpuffy | 21:40 Mon 05th Mar 2007 | Technology

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I have a laptop running XP and am thinking of buying an external hard drive to run my itunes on with it. I am also thinking of buying a new laptop in the future with Vista on, will I be able to switch the external hard drive to the new laptop with itunes on it without any problems?

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badlad.biz

I don't think there will be any problem with reading the HDD with either operating system. The question might be - will itunes run on Vista?

sarah_louise

You probably realise that it is best to have USB 2 connections on your old PC to improve the data transfer rate.
If your computer lists "Enhanced Host Controller" in Control Panel-System- Hardware- Device Manager-Universal Serial Bus Controllers then you have it otherwise you have USB 1.1 which is slower. A new laptop would be USB 2.

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