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

[CW Smith]

Mauri:
Can you be more specific about your iMac and PowerBook? What models are
they? (The speed of the processor under "About this Mac" will be very
helpful)

Peace,
CW

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM, mauri <woohoowoohoo at me.com> wrote:

> 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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Peace,
CW

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