I'm thinking of buying a Western Digital 500GB External Hard Drive from BestBuy for my DVDs to be copied on to. Is it possible to copy DVDs to a computer? I know I can copy Music CDs to it and run off Windows Media Player 11, the same way I watch DVDs on Media Player.
Will 500GB be enough, I think I have around 80 DVDs, plus probably will be buying some later. The good thing of getting a External Hard Drive is I can put away my pile of DVDs and have more room, plus I will not have to worry about scratched CDs anymore.
I have a 40" LCD Tv and turned my old IBM NetVista M41 into a Tv computer and so i'll be able to watch movies off there.
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It depends. If you used a 'drive-image' program to make a copy, then you can use 'drive-image' to copy from the backup onto the new disk-drive. But, if you did a file-by-file copy, the answer is 'no'.
Check the file system of your hard drive. If your PC is recognizing it, check if its a FAT or NTFS. If it is NTFS then you have to reformat it using your Mac and choose FAT. Mac OS recognizes NTFS as a read only drive. If you plan using it with your PC and MAC you should format it using your mac and choose MS-DOS in disc Utility. You cannot format the drive using your PC Computer with a FAT file system because of the capacity. Only Mac can format it with a FAT file system.
The lack of free space iis on your internal HD not the external. Whenever transferring files from one drive to another, you are acturally making a copy of the file to be transferred and sending the copy to the new drive. If your internal HD is nearly full, you can try to Cut and Paste the files to the external, or clear up more space on your internal b/4 tryiing to move the bigger files. Best of luck.
Greg
I will recommend you to use Western Digital I my self alos using a western Digital and its very reliable to use , So I will go for buying that one and it will be a big help for you...
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