I have a pc with XP, I am running on low disk space, will an external drive like the buffalo Mini Station help me?
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Absolutely, it allowed me to store my entire hard drive on it plus extra space
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that depends on your needs, if you are low on disk space because of non-program/app related files (ie: media(pics, videos, movies, music...etc) documents(ie: word, pdf/e-books, presentation files...etc)) then yes, moving as much of those files off of your system disk to external drive like the buffalo will certainly help you, if you have a ton of games, programs, apps installed and those are what is taking up most of the room, then you need a larger internal drive for your PC and the buffalo will not help you there...
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Yes it will give you more disk storage space, but be sure you have an available USB port on your computer for it to interface through. If you have a desktop computer and an available bay inside the unit you could also consider just adding an additional hard drive inside the unit.
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Absolutely. I have an older Dell running XP with an older Buffalo external drive attached (that's why a secondBuffalo drive to a second PC) that has maybe 20,000 photos plus tons of other files on it. Assuming you havea fee USB port, an external disk is the way to go especially on older PCs with a smaller C drive.
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It will help you if you place files and videos and music on the external drive because it will free space on your internal drive. You will have to connect the external drive anytime you want to access the files though.
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I think you mean NTFS, and yes.. Go to computer management - Disk Management - then format the disk to your needs
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I don't have any experience with either of these programs, but being that it is solid state and 1Tb you should not have any storage problems. Sorry I could not be of more help.
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The only way I've seen to do it is when you're synched up with your laptop through Windows Media Player 11. The amount of disk space remaining is visible on the Sync tab screen in the top-right corner.
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Yes. In fact, I just bought a new Dell XPS tablet running Windows 8, it came with no drive, yet I was able to use this drive to install an older program I use that runs on Windows 7. So yes, it should work no problem at all. Make sure you have 2 free USB ports, as the drive requires both in order to operate.
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it should, its essentially a tiny remote drive, the file system can only be viewed in a browser tho, then its just a matter of dragging and dropping to your desired folder
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Vista is installed on my desktop and XP is installed on my netbook. Would external or portable be better for transferring files from one system to another the way I presently can with a flash drive?
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move some files to a small flash drive such as: Patriot Spark 64 GB (USB 3 and very tiny)
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Yea, 8GB is plenty to run XP. You could strip XP down and install it on 256MB. I had XP installed on my eeePC with 4GB SSD and had about 2GB left over. Usually 2GB is what is used when done installing all your apps (Office 2003, VLC Media Player, ect). I would upgrade the ram if possible, especially since it has been so cheap lately. Hope this helps :)
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Yes, but it has to be formatted to exFAT if you want the files to be over 4gbs. (NTFS also for Windows)
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Yes. During the update I think it asked me if I want to use external storage space. Works great.
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Well with this device you may be able to put a few programs but not many considering it only has 16GB. But you could always get an external hard drive.
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From ezbuycafe via Amazon I received 160 gig formatted NTFS. Cheesey keyboard and mouse, but otherwise a seems to be good system to run my old XP programs and hardware.
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If it's in a desktop PC then you should have a 3.5 inch form factor drive. If that is the case this will work. This is a 3.5 form factor IDE drive.
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very little, you will need some kind of external device for storage and any extra programs or apps.
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When I bought this external drive my PC was on XP. I have not tried it with Win 7 or Win 8. However, it should work just fine and if not the driver for Win 8 should be easy to find at either MS website or the manufacturer's website.
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This particular drive is an EARS drive meaning that it is an advanced format drive which won't run by default in XP. Western Digital has set up a page to help users get it working in XP however I'm not an XP user so I'm not sure how straight-forward the steps are. You might be more interested in a EADS drive which should work fine out of the box for you. Unfortunately the 1.5 TB EADS drive costs 99 while this 2.0 TB EARS drive costs 89.