I have a maxtor 200 Gig. External hard drive (USB 2.0) runs fast loads songs and installs stuff fast but will it handle Windows XP On it? Or will it be slow?
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I don't think you can put your OS on a removable drive.  Your computer will not recognize the drive at boot time.\n\nIf your computer can recognize a USB drive via BIOS, then you are OK.
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windows 95-98 can get away with  32-64mb of ram windows 2000 can do it with 64-128mb  and windows xp needs a minimum 256mb you would need more ram for all operating systems the more you put on the computer and try to run these are not the minimum system req  but a beefed up version
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If there are no XP specific drivers, the drivers for Windows 2000 should work fine. Give it a try, any way.
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Windows 2000 and Windows XP should be fine if you not intent to run heavy program like gaming. But recommand you upgrade your RAM to 512MB, it make your programs run smooth.
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you would need to use partition magic as trying to do it yourself with a third party software you would end up deleting everything you on your Hard drive and loose all your data.\nor another suggestion would be buy a external USB hard drive and keep all your music and othe personal stuff on it.\nThis was you would increase your storage space and won't need to partition your exisiting drive and risk loosing your data.
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id recommend kepping it and buying an external hard drive like myself...its easy and portable depending on what model u get!
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Go to the microsoft web site.  They have what the requirements are.   I downloaded it on another machine I have and it took about 40 mintues I think. I've got 2000 pro. on this one, so I can't go with just regular xp... which I wish I would have known.
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U dont have to Redownload anything to ur new hard drive just move the pins on the back to Cable Select or to Slave. And u can store everything on the other drive and still have the same drive working (Both Drivers will be working U will just have 2 choose where u wanna save ur Files lol.)\n\nlol U can get prety much anything for an XP. Ummm i live down here in Arizona and at Office Max there are 300GB for about $149.98 lol I called them and acked for ya. And 300GB is ALOT OF SPACE thats perfect for video games, Music and lots of it. Huge videos. Theres a lower price one that is 160GB hard Drive that is $99.98 and these go into ur computer. If u are looking for ones that u can put ontop of ur computer and take with u there is a (Push buttong back up) 250GB for $179.98. Now walmart has a out of the case 250GB for $109.98, Theres an 500GB Media Vault out of the case for $498.88 Theres a new one out called TB thats about 1000GB and that my friends is TOOOO MUCH!! lol for $478.00   Theres in caseed drives 160GB for $48.88 <-- Good one) ^_^ Well i hope this helps lol the best one i would get if i didn't have alot of money would be the last one for $48.88 160GB. I I Personaly would get the TB or 300 GB and for 149.98 for the 300GB sound to me like a good price. Unless someone found one cheaper! ^_^ Well ttyl
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as far as my understanding, Windows can't boot off USB Drive or any portable drive without any tweak to the system itself. i never try it myself but you can sure try it out. but still you will need an existing working Windows.\ntry to search for "boot windows xp off external drive"
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If it does I can't tell. I have a 120 gig Maxtor 10,000 rpm drive that I have wiped I know at least 10 times and I have never had any problems with it,so I think you'll be ok.Also a lot of cleaners also write over your free space when they clean your drive and if it would hurt your drive I'm sure they wouldn't include that feature.Hope this helps.
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to be usefull at least 512MB of memory,(256MB is s l o w ) plug and play cards (hopefully you already have them), a fairly big hard disk Windows folder can take around 3GB of disk space alone, so allow minimum of 40GB hard disk.\nAnd as said a copy of Win XP in whatever flavour you can afford, try for the best rather than the cheapest Media and Pro have much more functionality and also remote assistance Home does not. And don't worry too much about speed, I ran XP on an old IBM 600MHz PC without problems, and not that much slower with 512MB memory.
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Your HD is to small, If your Total HD is 2GB, It take 2GB of Total Partition  to put XP on the Disk.\nHarry
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I would assume it needs drivers.\nIf it came with a CD, you need to run your CD.\nIf you got it used, and it came with no CD or info, look for a model number on it somewhere and do a google search on that number and see if there are some drivers you can download.\n\nIf your using a USB drive with Windows XP, there's a good chance you don't need to get some drivers. In this case, you need to look at the manufacturer's website.
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I would highly recommend CasperXP. It's saved me a few times now and makes a complete bootable clone of the disk. The best thing is that it can backup whilst you are still using XP and has smart clone technology so that on subsequent backups it will only backup changed sectors of the hard disk reducing backup time considerably. It will work with external USB hard disks.
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You will run out of room in about 2 years. Get a 120G or higher now. \n\nI have over 2500 MP3's and tons of programs on my 120G, and it's just over half full.\n\nDon't forget to make frequent backup's of all your stuff. Hard drives do crash. \n\nI've created a folder just for stuff I want to keep. Every month my stuff (Outlook info, address book, etc.) gets backed-up to this folder. Every six months I burn this folder to several DVD-RW's. I use RW's so I can rotate them.
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I'm not sure this is what you are looking for but you can make a bootable version of Windows XP to install to a flash drive should your hard drive ever fail, read the tutorial from Tom's Hardware for more information, http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/09/windows_in_your_pocket/index.html
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If you upgrade with files in the recycling bin then they will be over written.\n\nTake them out of the trash and move them to the root (C:/ ) directory. Install XP over top of 98SE. But make sure you DON'T choose the option to format your C: Drive and they will still be there.\n\nOnly problem I see is if your old computer had 98 on it then it's prolly too old to run XP. Look for something a lil newer.