It was a Western Digital Mybook 500 gb for approximately $139 at Stables and it had a usb cable to connect to the computer and a power cord. However, it did not require software and as I wrote in my first email, it was recognized both by my old computer running XP and now it works just as well with my computer running Vista.
Linnette -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tammy cantrell Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:36 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] HARD DRIVES Would you mind sharing whaere you purchased this hard drive from? I know you said it was a plug and use. Are you saying that there was no power cord? Just wanted to make sure I understood what you are saying. Thanks for sharing the information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linnette Whalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] HARD DRIVES > Hello, I just bought a Western Digital 500 gb and it worked both on my > old > XP computer and my new Vista computer. It was a plug and use and no > software > was required. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aiden > gardiner > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:18 AM > To: Patricia Dunbar; blind-computing@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] HARD DRIVES > > Hi Patricia, > > As joseph said, it doesn't matter what brand you get, and the drive gets > recognised by xp instantly. however, some manufacturors provide a CD rom > in > the box. In my case, the CD has backup software on it, allowing you to > backup your files and folders to the external drive. Someone please > correct > me if i'm wrong, but i think this is usually the case. > > Hope this helps. > > Aiden > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patricia Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:50 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] HARD DRIVES > > >> Hi Rick, >> >> I have went to this site here and copied this info as today I plan to >> purchase a external hard drive and just wanted to ask quickly a couple of >> things.. >> >> 1. Does it matter what brand? *I use xp pro on HP machine >> >> 2. I had heard that just plugging this into a USB port that xp would >> automatically recognize the drive so nothing else was necessary to copy >> stored data to that device? >> >> Thanks for your help and the site you maintaine.. >> >> >> Patricia >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rick Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "blind-computing" <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> >> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:49 AM >> Subject: [Blind-Computing] HARD DRIVES >> >> >>>A text tutorial on installing an OEM hard drive in Win XP can be found >>>at: >>> http://www.blind-computing.com/windows/xp/xp.php >>> >>> Richard Q. 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