If you purchase a new drive in a new enclosure (which has a new interface), then you can use the full 1 or 2 TB of the external drive on your old machine, via a USB port. It's the interface at the peripheral end of the USB cord that determines what kinds of drives will work.
Fred Holmes At 04:13 PM 7/8/2009, rleesimon wrote: >I have a winXPhomeSP3 on a Dell4400 the motherboard/firmware of which will >support only 130gb limit. How do I know this? I bought a replacement HDD >for it from original 40gb and got 130gb and it failed; they sent a >replacement but ran out of that size and sent 160gb instead. In system >tools, I saw the 160gb but only 120 was in use so I had to set up a separate >drive letter and got back the 40gb missing. Now, I have a 120gb external >USB drive and I wanna get a 1 or 2 TB USB drive for storage; will I hafta >partition that into lots of little drives or what? What about switching it >to use on my winXPproSP3 laptop too? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
