Thanks, Moose.
But the My Passport I bought on Tuesday was not recognized by Xp ... I
bet maybe because of the very short USB cable: not enough power if I
added 60 cm. of interconnect.
I'll read better the User's manual and see if I can ignore the Smartware.
Simply, I cannot stand 10 files not backuped because of 'access denied'.
Fernando.
2009/12/31 Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>:
> C.H.Ling wrote:
>> Interesting, all my external USB hard disks do not require software to see
>> them but they are 250 and 500GB.
>>
>
> That doesn't sound right to me, either. Any USB HDD should be recognized
> as a Mass Storage Device by Windoze by simply connecting the USB cable.
> No special software should be needed. The 2.5" WD 'My Passport' I bought
> on the road for additional storage may have had some sort of software on
> it, but I simply ignored it.
>
> I agree about Syncback, a simple and reliable back-up program.
>
> On the free version, I couldn't find a simple way to view only the
> differences between source and target, just many pages of all files. To
> do disk and folder level comparisons of contents, I found a free app
> called ViceVersa Free that does a nice job. It was VERY helpful when I
> reorganized the sub-directory structure on my 1.5TB image disk and
> matching BU disk.
>
> Moose
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