Ive got a toshiba laptop and I would like to get an external harddrive
for it. i dont know anything about computers. could somebody give me
some advice?

Thanks

On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:06:06 -0700 (PDT), mtw2@hw.ac.uk wrote:

First, check if your laptop supports USB 2.0.
Then, check that your laptop is not running Windows 98 or Me.
If both are clear, you can just about use any USB external.

If you have USB 2.0 and Windows 98 or Me, make sure that the
drive you buy supports Win 98/Me.

And if your laptop doesn't support USB 2 (and in that case it
will most probably also fail to support firewire and / or eSata),
better think again. Then you will probably don't want an external
drive at all (as things will get very, very slow.)


--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok

On May 7, 5:42*pm, bok...@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote:
Thanks Gerard!
Its Windows XP. But how do I check if my laptop supports USB 2 ?

<mtw2@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3ac55d99-6156-4712-a227-2d4ceedaef1e@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
On May 7, 5:42 pm, bok...@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote:
Thanks Gerard!
Its Windows XP. But how do I check if my laptop supports USB 2 ?

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Look at the USB ports at the bottom of the page in Device manager (press
windows+break then select Device Manager). The word you are looking for is
'enhanced'. If any of the ports are labelled as 'enhanced', then you have
high speed USB.

On 8 Mai, 12:43, "M.I.5¾" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:

Thanks!

In article <4821daa1.24440932@News.Individual.NET>,
Gerard Bok <bok118@zonnet.nl> wrote:
USB 2.0 support can be added to an older laptop with a PC Card.

I did exactly this on a Tecra 8200 using a Belkin USB host that I bought
on eBay for $20. Bandwidth is still limited to about 20 Mb/sec but it
works just fine, including video playback.

"Mike S." <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote in message
news:g0cciq$1mi$1@reader2.panix.com...
AFAIA no USB2 card exists in PC Card format. They are only available in
cardbus which should work at near enough full speed.

Greetings..

If you don't know anything about computers, how did you get Usenet
configured? How did you learn to post messages on the groups? IF
someone helped you to accomplish all of this, consider going back to
that person for advise on external mass storage. It would probably be
a bit more personal of a reference than complete strangers on Usenet.

Cheers,
Mr. Mentor



<mtw2@hw.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:2d2f863a-5547-4fb6-bac7-fd35391a2313@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
| Ive got a toshiba laptop and I would like to get an external
harddrive
| for it. i dont know anything about computers. could somebody give me
| some advice?
|
| Thanks

In article <482a88de$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net>,
M.I.5¾ <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:
Yes, I means cardbus.
If the OP's computer is old enough that it only has a PC Card slot then he
can't upgrade to USB 2.0. I don't remember him giving enough specifics to
make that distinction.

In news:g0fc1i$4de$1@reader2.panix.com,
Mike S. typed on Wed, 14 May 2008 18:46:10 +0000 (UTC):

Oh M.I.5¾ is just real picky about this subject and he always has. I
OTOH could careless about the terminology used as long as it is
understood. That is important about language and being picky about it is
just futile anyway. M.I.5¾ just isn't smart enough to figure that one
out yet.

See oxymorons for starters. And you will soon realize that trying to
make sense out of the English language is just rubbish. It is just time
to accept the idea that it is just hopelessly lost to steer it towards
any logical sense whatsoever.

http://www.oxymoronlist.com/

What M.I.5¾ fails to realize is that a PC Card has made it to a
genericized trademark status. Heck the powers to be already screwed up
anyway (they are not very smart people to begin with). As a PC card
generically could mean any card that plugs into a personal computer
(even a laptop). So being picky about it only shows what kind of person
they are anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark

http://www.nowsell.com/marketing-gui...trademark.html

--
Bill