-=PCTechTalk=- Re: 2 external hard drive quetions plus a new one

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
>>
>>
>>
>
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