External Drive Hi everyone.  I've been having computer problems recently and may need to format it. :-(  I was wondering if anyone here has an external hard drive that has worked well for them and has about 150 - 200 GB of memory for less than 150 dollars.  I absolutely refuse to lose my files, but my computer is getting slower and slower.  Also, where did you get it?  Any help is appreciated.

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Thanks!

Thanks Mal.  I think I'm going to get the Seagate 160GB.

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Don't talk to me about hard drives...

Hey, I haven't lost any data (yet) and I managed to get around the NTSF.sys error and access XP in spite of the continuous reboot cycle and bad sectors, so there

If you really are getting it then I'd buy a new HDD immediately and copy all your data over to a new Windows installation. Once things start to go, they invariably get worse.

You can get around it by grabbing a few files from the hidden system restore folder and copying them to the config folder in windows\system32. You need to rename them afterwards though. It's not an easy step as you need exclusive access to the files so you need be able to stick the drive in another machien or use ERD Commander etc.

I've just had an external drive done.

I was going to go with block paving but for cost, I went with tarmac.

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