jimbob
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« on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 12:38:55 » |
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just got myself a spanking new one of these beauts....question is, how do you use it?? I thought it was simply a case of plug in and everything gets automatically transferred no??   |
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« Reply #1 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 12:40:05 » |
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Should appear as an extra drive on windows explorer, you then drag and drop any files you want to copy to it.
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 12:41:43 » |
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most of them are,aslong as they are formatted for the right windows (xp/vista etc) or mac when you bought it. otherwise it'l need installin,hopefully u got a disk for that..
just try plugging it in,if its formatted correctly it'l install itself:)
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jimbob
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 12:42:18 » |
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right you are...I'll give that a go...top bombin
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 13:16:09 » |
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I'd never trust a disk which comes with an external drive because it's clearly only filled with bloatware and toolbars.
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land_of_bo
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« Reply #5 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 14:21:52 » |
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talking of portable drives, have been checking out Portable apps lately. I suspect one for the geekier members of the TEF but pretty fucking cool in my opinion. http://portableapps.com/ |
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flammableBen
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« Reply #6 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 14:28:37 » |
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Back in the day, all my essential apps ran off very portable little square disks or tapes. The world has gone full circle.
It is pretty cool though, I like software which doesn't decide it wants to integrate itself with every inch of an OS, even if I never go anywhere.
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land_of_bo
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« Reply #7 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 15:10:23 » |
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Anonymous browsing etc FB - leave no trace...like a ninja - shit in a bag and take it with you.
It's good that you can take all your shit on your keys; you're at someone elses house no need to worry about using their wanky IE or using hotmail - use your portable Firefox and Thunderbird, you've got all your favourites etc and don't leave history behind for them to nose at.
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #8 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 21:29:47 » |
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I love portable apps, I don't have many, but got had most of Adobe's product range as cracked portables. I have such a small amount of hard disk space left and don't wanna upgrade, so i should really move to some portable apps.
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« Reply #9 on: Monday, February 16, 2009, 22:08:02 » |
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Or an external hard drive....
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 00:14:08 » |
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Yeah but i'm a smart arse and already have one.  It's a NAS though and is only ever connected for backing up - it's only use. I should really back up my drive again and just delete everything on my drive, which was the original idea. Robert's your cousin's father. |
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 00:44:38 » |
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USB memory sticks are getting cheaper, you should be able to get 16 GB for twenty quid soon. So why mess about with something with moving parts (hard drives I mean).
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flammableBen
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 00:46:18 » |
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Because 16gb isn't very much?
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flammableBen
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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 00:47:44 » |
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I think I read somewhere about someone making really big thingy state drives, but they were super expensive and had issues with number of read/writes they could do without giving up.
Also 16gb for £20 is stupidly expensive when you can get 1 TB harddrives for under £100 (I think)
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Crozzer
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« Reply #14 on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 00:55:44 » |
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You have got a point, hard drives are ridiculously cheap, but solid state memory will take over in probably less than five years.
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