i got a western digital external drive as seen here….http://www.techeta.com/2009/05/western-digital-my-book-essential-edition-20-1tb-external-usb-hard-drive-review-wd10000h1u-0010eavs.html

i quickly realized that it wouldn’t let me copy large files to it at once from my computer so i started downloading str8 to it….i found out from the article in the link i posted just above is that i had to reformat it to NTFS cuz im a windows user to copy files larger than 4 gigs….so i have like 200 gigs of stuff on it right now…so my question is can i backup what i have on their from downloading str8 to it…. then reformat it to NTFS…then put what i backed up back on there and then be able to copy files larger than 4 gigs to it from my c: drive cuz i have numerous 10 gig folders with music and movies on my pc’s hard drive…my thinking is to have all my music/movies on the external drive so i can delete them off my c: drive and reformat and reinstall windows on my pc cuz it runs like a dog…im willing to take any advice all shapes and sizes…tell me if my thinking is wrong for this type of drive that i have but that was my plan….sorry for such a long question…and i hope u can understand what im trying to ask.. thank you, mike

Hi i have seen an 80gb portable usb hard drive on ebay, it says it comes with ’1 x USB Cable with slipped USB ports’ and on the picture it has a mini usb and also on the same lead are 2 usb plugs. Can anyone tell me what this means? Do i have to plug in 2 usb ports on my computer to run it?
Thanks

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-80GB-2-5-External-HDD-Hard-Disk-Drive-USB-2-0-UK_W0QQitemZ230144171058QQihZ013QQcategoryZ16178QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I am running Windows XP professional on a home desktop computer. The desktop already serves several internal drives with the network but I am having trouble adding another share (an external USB hard drive). The sharing setup does not present a problem, but each time I restart the computer, shares located on the external drive are removed. How do I force windows to reestablish these shares after a restart? The problem does not appear to be a shifting local map since the external drive is assigned the same local drive letter after each restart.