wow! that was a good price - I thoght $120 was good for 500 gigs but your deal sure beat that. Or course when it doesn't work for what you want, then it's not a good deal. Did you try calling their toll free number to see if they had any solutions? I have found that both Best Buy and Staples (where I got mine) will take things back with no problems. Circuit City is do to open here in a couple of months so will be interesting with all their history (firing everyone so they could hire kids at minimum age, etc.) how they will be. I wonder why the font was small as whatever I put on it is the same as what I have on my screen from my computer - I didn't buy it for backup of my whole system though so of course didn't run into the problems with OE vs Firefox - sorry to hear it didn't work out for you. I'm wondering now if I would be able to install any program right on to it myself as I use it basically for storage. On one of my externals I am going to try to install the Hugware and LD browsers but they aren't the Free Agent. Dolores ----- Original Message ----- From: "betty" <nextcent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:35 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- 2 external hard drive quetions plus a new one >I have to jump in here, because I just bought a Seagate Free Agent, and > have packed it up for return. First of all, I had to use a magnifying > glass > to read everything; there was no way to increase the fonts, even with the > mouse scroll. > In addition, all the defaults are for Internet Explorer, and I use > Firefox. > The killer is that when I downloade Firefors for the HD, my own Firefox > disappeared! So that was it. Could not abide THAT! So I did a System > Restore, and packed it up. > > Now I don't know what to do. This has been my first foray into getting > something for backup. And I only had to pay about $28, 'cause I had a > bunch of coupons from Best Buy, including a Birthday coupon! Isn't that > neat> > > Betty > > Dolores wrote: >> Thank you and GMan both as that was what I seeing myself when I >> uncompressed >> each folder since they are mostly jpg or mp3 files - still have no idea >> how >> that box managed to get checked but I'm glad I discovered the cause. I >> partitioned my new external and it went smoothly with no kinks - now I >> just >> need to find the time to move things around! >> >> My newest is a Seagate Free Agent and it sure is slim and compact >> compared >> to some of my older ones - same thing though with this one 500 (actually >> 465) as with my 400 (actually 375) I have to keep checking it to make >> sure >> it's not getting too hot as sure don't want to lose stuff just because >> I'm >> in a hurry. The smaller ones don't have that problem but my computer >> desk >> looks like I'm running a store for externals so couldn't justify buying >> small ones just so they would stay cool all the time :-) I only hook >> them >> up when I'm actually moving something around or adding something and >> until >> this new one I was able to use the same two USB connectors and power >> lines >> for them all but while this new one can use the same power line, it has a >> different shape USB connector so have an additional dangling wire. >> >> GMan I appreciate your consideration about not answering back right away >> but >> I guess I just feel if someone takes the time to answer me I should make >> a >> big effort to at least acknowledge them - I'll try not to feel too guilty >> if >> it happens again :-) Dolores >> >> >> > > > -- > Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and > everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. > > To unsubscribe or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/