Originally Posted by
PTravel
First, you will find USB 1.0 or 1.1 extremely limiting for data back-up. Are you sure there isn't a 1394/Firewire port on the computer?
Mr. Tb bought the PC in 2002. It's pretty primitive (won't even tell you how little HD mem and RAM he has). On the other hand, he doesn't keep many important files, and probably won't back up very often anyway. I'm just trying to wean him off of floppies
Originally Posted by
PTravel
Second, USB drives are completely idiot-proof. You plug them in and the operating system does the job of connecting them. There are no drivers or special software required for any of them. Just plug them in, wait a few seconds and they'll show up under My Computer.
Good. I've been backing up my laptop to a portable HD and also some files to a flash drive (unfortunately, bought the latter before I realized that I'd want to synch all my photo and music files between my two laptops), and it has been simple.
The T61 has always been unstable, and since I think I will probably have to do a reinstall some day, I also want to back-up to a non-travelling HD. Some of the HD manufacturers do mention software in their specs, and I just want to make sure that I don't need to use it.