I bought an external hard drive, it has only a USB cable, no power source other than the USB. It did not take another ILM from FS to use the drive. It was recognized by my laptop as soon as I plugged it in, not dissimilar to a USB memory stick, except larger. Robert McCoy 506-459-6636 -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Moti Azrad Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:09 AM To: helpneeded list; access-uk list; Jfw List Subject: external hard disk Hi to you, all. I've a friend who purchased a new external hard disk. His purpose is to use it as an external hard disk for only saving there music files and other kind of data. He is a totally blind pc user with Ilm Jaws 6 and windows xp hoem edition. The question is: When he connects this external hard disk, does he need to activate his Jaws Ilm authorisation and loosing one key or not? second, when he connects this external 400 GB hard disk, does he need to connect the usb cable only or he must connect his external hard disk first to the electricity power? I didn't use this product and I told him to ask his question here. Many thanks for any help. Moti Moti Azrad Musician & Piano-Tuner motia@xxxxxxx Israel -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx