Mauri:<div><br></div><div>Can you be more specific about your iMac and PowerBook? What models are they? (The speed of the processor under "About this Mac" will be very helpful)</div><div><br></div><div>Peace,</div>
<div>CW<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM, mauri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woohoowoohoo@me.com">woohoowoohoo@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;min-height:14px">I have a "Dark Side Machine" (Windows XP) and I need to remove ALL the files to an external drive and reformat the existing internal hard drives (2) and then rebuild the system. This is a task I'm pretty sure I can handle. However, I need to purchase an external hard drive to move the files from the internal hard drives... probably 500 GB at the most. BUT what I want to do AFTER this messy job is use the external hard drive with my iMac or PowerBook ~ so I would like it to be relatively portable so I can transfer large files or groups of files. (There will be NO Windows files left on the hard drive.)</div>
</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><b>Any suggestions/recommendations? </b></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, throwing the XP machine in the river has crossed my mind, but it works well for email and web browsing and has enough power/speed for what my wife uses it for. It was a business purchase for a previous business that had specific business related software that would ONLY run on a Windows machine... and my Mac in emulation mode (late 1990s) was way too slow.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!!</div><div><br></div><div>~~ mauri ~~</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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