Becky Pleiman wrote: > Early this evening, I purchased a new External Hard > Drive (Western Digital-My Book), 160GBs, installed the > drivers (I am a Windows 98 SE user) I don't know about Windows 98SE for sure, but you shouldn't have any problems. I have an external HDD as a backup & it works just the same as the internal HDD on XP Pro. -- Gary in Sunny Queensland, Australia. www.sunzine.net/rockhampton Genealogy Page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liddellfamily/

Hi, Guess I wasn't clear with my original questions. INRE new External Hard Drive I purchased it, primarily, to use as a back-up for my data. However, Should I load my operating system (Windows 98 SE) onto the new drive? Should I load application software, genealogy, Word, Excel, etc. onto the new drive? Thanks --- Gary <[email protected]> wrote: > Becky Pleiman wrote: > > Early this evening, I purchased a new External > Hard > > Drive (Western Digital-My Book), 160GBs, installed > the > > drivers (I am a Windows 98 SE user) > I don't know about Windows 98SE for sure, but you > shouldn't have any > problems. I have an external HDD as a backup & it > works just the same as > the internal HDD on XP Pro. > > -- > Gary in Sunny Queensland, Australia. > www.sunzine.net/rockhampton > Genealogy Page > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liddellfamily/ > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the > List Admin at [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >

No. External drives are fine for storage, but the USB interface is way too slow for applications or operating systems. Kraig Becky Pleiman <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Guess I wasn't clear with my original questions. INRE new External Hard Drive I purchased it, primarily, to use as a back-up for my data. However, Should I load my operating system (Windows 98 SE) onto the new drive? Should I load application software, genealogy, Word, Excel, etc. onto the new drive? Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com