[Ham-Computers] External USB Hard Drive - Work on an Older Computer?

[Jim Hill]

Thanks for the replies. I wanted an external hard drive that would work on 
a lap top and desk top computer, but this type drive is not available. I 
went to BestBuy, and was told that they had 2.5" External drives for lap 
top computers and 3.5" External drives for desk top computers, but nothing 
for both.  I guess power requirements differ.
Jim

At 09:43 AM 2/25/2006, you wrote:
>Will an external USB hard drive work on Win 98/ME and older XP 
>computers?  I've heard the original USB ports didn't work very well and 
>gradually improved over the years, but don't know when they were 
>"adequate". Will there be problems with the version? I'm using optical 
>mice which use v1.0 (I think), and assume USB 2.x is used for external 
>hard drives.
>
>I see plenty of ad's for complete external hard drives, but is a unit 
>available where you provide the actual drive? I have some extra drives 
>available. They work fine; I kept them when I purchased larger drives.
>
>Thanks, Jim
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