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    alancwa Posts: 3, Reputation: 1
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    Jan 4, 2008, 05:13 PM
    External hard drive
    I am running a HP A1657C PC,I would like to purchase a external hard drive about 160 gig can you advice which one would be right for me. I want to back up c drive and at present only using about 30 gig but want room to expand.
    Thanks for reading this and any info you can offer
    Alan
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    Jan 5, 2008, 10:05 PM
    Any USB external drive will suit you, look for a sale or the options are really based on how mych you want to spend - I've recently seen 300gb drives at 129.00 on sale
    When you get new external drive, format it as NTFS for better and faster performance
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    Jan 5, 2008, 10:58 PM
    If your in canada try dell.ca we just bought a 500 GB external for 119.00 on sale.

    As said above any external hard drive will work, its USB usually
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