[DM-MUG] Versatile External Hard Drive...

[mauri]

> I have a "Dark Side Machine" (Windows XP) and I need to remove ALL  
> the files to an external drive and reformat the existing internal  
> hard drives (2) and then rebuild the system. This is a task I'm  
> pretty sure I can handle. However, I need to purchase an external  
> hard drive to move the files from the internal hard drives...  
> probably 500 GB at the most. BUT what I want to do AFTER this messy  
> job is use the external hard drive with my iMac or PowerBook ~ so I  
> would like it to be relatively portable so I can transfer large  
> files or groups of files. (There will be NO Windows files left on  
> the hard drive.)
>
> Any suggestions/recommendations?
>
> Yes, throwing the XP machine in the river has crossed my mind, but  
> it works well for email and web browsing and has enough power/speed  
> for what my wife uses it for. It was a business purchase for a  
> previous business that had specific business related software that  
> would ONLY run on a Windows machine... and my Mac in emulation mode  
> (late 1990s) was way too slow.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> ~~ mauri ~~
>

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