I have an external USB hard disk drive with its own power source, not powered by my computer. When it is connected to a windows xp system, it shows up on the computer as an additional disk drive in your My Computer program. The jaws ILM is installed on my main C: drive and the additional external hard disk drive shows up as drive f: on my particular computer. I do not have an ILM on the external hard disk drive. The external hard disk drive is used for back up, music and book files, and it is easily portable to another computer with a USB port. ----- Original Message ----- From: Moti Azrad To: helpneeded list ; access-uk list ; Jfw List Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:08 AM 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