I'm sorry... you've lost me. I don't know computer lingo.

All I do to reformat is stick in the Dell CD... press F12 at the Dell Screen, pick NTFS system and then let it do it's thing. After that I use the other CD of drivers and install the ones with the check marks next to them, in the order that Dell told me to do it. One was "chip".. what that is for I don't know. All I know is that the guy at Dell said I need it.

Tonight my friend went to Dell and found 3 updates for my computer. One was BIOS... I had 06 and they were up to 11 already. Plus she got new drivers for my CD Burner, and one to increase my windows speed. The drive still didn't work :(

She said I have USB 1 things, and that the hard drive is looking for a USB 2 or something and doesn't seem to be backwards like what I need. (hope I got that right... it was all Greek to me). She said I need one that works in older USB ports as well as newer ones. Apparently I have older ones.

I put the drive in the closet. If my nephew gets some free time I'll have him take a look at it. He's a tech and likes to tinker with stuff like that. I don't like to bother him with stuff though because between his work, school and both his Mom and Dad's computer woes.... he has enough to deal with. They're even more stupid when it comes to computers than I am!!! :)

I just wish that if it were not going to work that it did it from the get go instead of working and then suddenly deciding that it didn't like my USB ports after it ate my files. To answer your question about power.... It has an AC adeptor cord that I plugged in, and then it has a USB cable that goes from the drive to my computer.

Message edited on: 09/27/2005 03:44

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