O.T. Ipod as a Hard Drive

FYI

I'm sure allot of you are aware of this. For those who aren't.
I was in need of a transportable hard drive to move large amounts of files
between my home office and my contract design office. A 4 or six gig drive
wasn't enough. I checked into the new 30 and 60 gig Ipod and there was a
little blurb about using it as a hard drive. I went in and bought a 60 gig
Ipod to test it out. Sure enough all you have to do (on a XP machine) is
plug it in a USB 2.0 port and it fires right up. Grabs a drive letter, up
to "f" and you can drag and drop to the "Ipod" drive. Really works slick. It
also give the benefit of your own "tunes" at work if you like. If you are
already up to drive "f" you will have to "disconnect" temporarily a cd
drive or whatever, because Ipod only drabs up to "f". It seems to have
surprisingly fast transfer rates

Mike Eckstein

 

As an alternative, I use bus powered 2.0 USB external harddrives from
Outpost.com.(Fry's Electronics). From time to time, they're on sale for as
little as $59.00 - $109.00, 20GB - 60GB. They're just laptop hardrives in a
case.

Cheers,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

Mmmmm wonder if this could be Tax deductible?

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

Mine is!!!

Mike Eckstein

 

I believe that is that a windows bug and not anything to do with the ipod.

Cause I had a network drive mapped to F and was unable to access a USB
hard drive (iriver mp3 bug), as I already have internal drives up to E.

Apparently, windos (xp) is unable to see that an F drive already exists,
and then increment up to G. I'd swear I had this work correctly in win2k
(plug in->drive appears at G).

Stupid drive letter designation. What can't windows be easy like linux?
I plug a drive in and an icon shows up on my desktop.

-john
http://www.kubuntu.org/

 

My Creative Zen 40 gig uses an add-on for explorer - windoz doesn't
recognize it as a drive - and it works great for large file transfers
too. Probably most of the mp3 players could do this.

Love having my own music at work too.

Peace