Hi Roger. Thanks for the Maplands advice. I'll get Pauline to help me check this and also the SVP url provided by Sandra out tonight. The 4 GB Thumb Drive was purchased at Priceless in Glasgow. I got it about two months ago and have experienced no difficulties with it. Not bad for the price. I'd normally burn a DVD to hold this amount of data. Best wishes. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:56 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives > Hi Andy > > Have a look at Maplin's as they are doing a 400 gig Maxter external hard > drive for £75 at the moment. > > Where did you get a 4 gig thumb drive from for only £18? > > Roger > > Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andy Logue" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:09 PM > Subject: [access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives > > >> Hi George. >> >> That's good news. I recall some years back that they had to be formatted >> to >> something sounding like nod 32. It would make life much easier if it >> just >> showed up as another drive. I'm visiting PC World on Friday, so I'll >> have >> a >> look beforehand to get some idea of prices, sizes etc. >> >> Incidentally, One of my favourite Mother-in-Law jokes by Les Dawson. >> >> Mother-in-Law: Well what do you think? >> Son-in-Law: Had your hair done? No. >> Bought a new hat? >> No. >> Perhaps a new dress? >> No! No! >> I don't know then. New shoes? >> No! No! No! See you men, your good for nothing! >> For goodness sake! What is it then? >> I'm wearing a gas mask! >> >> Best wishes. >> Andy. >> >> P.S I love my Mother-in-Law. Just don't want Pauline to turn out like >> her, >> hahaha. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:35 PM >> Subject: [access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives >> >> >>> Hi Andy, >>> >>> Just plug it in to the USB port, and pray. >>> >>> Mine usually comes up with a dialog asking me what I want to >>> do with it, but that's just the once. Alt + F4 to dismiss >>> that dialog, and after that it just appears as an additional >>> disk drive in My Computer. >>> >>> But then again............. Are computers not modelled on >>> Mother-in-laws with acute P.M.T. and a hangover - kind of >>> like my Vista system? >>> >>> George.=20 >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Logue >>> Sent: 24 April 2007 22:05 >>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: [access-uk] External Hard Drives >>> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> I'm thinking of purchasing an External Hard Drive, most >>> probably, from PC World. >>> >>> My question is that I recently purchased a 4 GB Thumb Drive >>> for =A318.00. All I need do is insert it into a USB and I'm >>> presented with the Windows What do you want Windows to do >>> box. 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