When buying external hard drive what features to look for compatibility with laptop hard drive?
963268
ya it should be fine... the only thing is that it will then draw ts power from ur laptop runnin the batt down quicker
1011981
Most external hard drives are just an internal ide drive with its own power supply. You should be able to remove the drive, set it as slave and install it in your PC. This is pretty simple. If the drive is still ok, you can then recover the data.
76156
If it's what I'm thinking, you can't see the drive in Disk Management.  Read this post on my technology blog and follow the DiskPart instructions.\n\nhttp://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2005/11/adding-external-hard-drive-hard-way.html
958130
find a external hard dirve. copy the files to it and move to laptop.
650658
IDE to USB\nturn and desktop or laptop drive to an external USB drive\nHard Drives DVD Burners the works\nSimple instal no drivers \nonly $25.00\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156101
1186344
Most likely you can remove the actual hard drive that's contained in it and connect it directly to the inside of your computer, depending on your computer model and configuration.
795235
Yep.  The only real difference about an external HD is that it's located outside the case.
759158
The only viable option besides copying to the hard drive is the Disc Stakka from Imation. See more info here: http://www.imation.com.au/products/disc_stakka/index.htm\nhttp://www.imation.com/products/disc_stakka/index.html\n\nAdded the U.S. link. My mistake.
775664
For backup (one touch) i would go with Seagate, but for a portable hard drive i would use WD (western digital)\n\nBoth are excellent companies, and i haven't had a faulty product from them yet.
104641
Here is the link for support and the drivers needed for both Mac and PC. with the Lacie 160 GB external hard drives\n\nhttp://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/
471394
Backup? You mean backing up files on the laptop? I'm confused.
38604
It shouldn't have bad sectors if you've just bought it.\n\nAnd in response to your additional information, return the drive immediately! Otherwise problems will accumulate in the future.
1160109
I assume you mean that your laptop is almost out of disk space, not memory.\n\nThere are many external hard drives that will plug into the USB port on your laptop and will store a lot of music.  I have purchased some that hold 250GB of storage for $129.  They are perfect for that type of application.  Just make sure that your laptop has USB ports (preferably USB 2.0).  Unless it is more than 5 years old, you should be fine.
825422
I believe that this drive is nothing more than an external HDD. So, I suppose that any other external USB HDD would work? But you never know with HP!
231201
A portable hard drive is an example of an external hard drive, but there are other kinds (non=portable external hard drives) too. \n\nHard drives are either external (separate from the computer) or internal (built into the computer). All portable hard drives are external. Not all external hard drives are portable.
867497
As long as nothing is wrong with the hard drive, they won't replace the drive. They can replace the entire laptop and as long as it's the same hard drive, it will still work as it always did.\n\nDell won't replace something that isn't faulty.
424155
external is better.because it can be used for other computers too.\nyou can use it as a large cooldisk.