External HD on EEEPC

[dennismaclarry]

greet this video is

[misteuremir]

it's amazing dud great video bravo really continue like that...

[jcmnica2007]

Don't really need one, my 1000hd comes with 120 gigs and XP installed.

[maximusnick]

time wasting

[BorkaBonum]

Agreed. What a waste of bandwith putting this shit up.

It's like having a turorial for plugging in a USB.

[irishkendoll]

im kinda confused here, what is the goal here? any externel HD would work through USB just like any PC. did i miss something?

[francescomm]

Yes, in fact I have bought a Western Digital WD Passport 160GB, plug it in and works like a charm.

I also partitioned it to have some FAT32, and a few linux partitions, installed Ubuntu on it so I can boot from it when I want.

[irishkendoll]

right but you say that like your suprised. why would you think it wouldnt work? ofcourse it would work :S

[BADRUNESCAPE13]

Nice!

[pepe6666]

Yeah I don't see what is so amazing about an external hdd being plugged into the EEE. The EEE runs x86 linux like anything else.

[legomindstormbuilder]

yo i want one like that where did you get it online

[legomindstormbuilder]

this is the tranlation of the description:

Use of an external disc on EEEPC. All the external cases seem compatible with the EEEPC

[mipmipmipmipmip]

heh, this is a cool external box. What brand is it?

[othellowaborn15]

i like it alot too its cool

[redmistpete]

Nah, get a western digital passport drive instead they're smaller and neater and come in almost any colour to match your eee pc.

[BubaBoi]

how did you set it up ? i have a my passport essentials an i can't set it up .

[redmistpete]

Mine didn't require any setting up - just worked straight away when I plugged it in :( Works on Linux and Windows but if your got it second hand, maybe its been reformatted or damaged? A new one should work out of the box, if not -my advise would be to take it back and exchange it. My older external drives, formatted as NTFS (windows) will only work with windows, Kinux wont even recognize them, If this is the case, you could try to format the drive to fat32 using a windows computer.

[BubaBoi]

oh. well i couldn't store any files on my passport but after looking everywhere , i found some stuff like how to format it and so i did. works just how i want it too.

[redmistpete]

Yay - congrats! :) Glad it works now anyway.

[Renatodonadio]

For a moment I thought he was going to open a 3.5" HD :-D

[GEMOO68]

Me too xD ! Some people will open 3.5" HD and will wonder where to put their 2.5 !