external hdd

Hello Here I go again, this is not really a "problem", but since my skills are limited I`ll ask anyway. Pls advice if this innapropriate in the forum. Got myself a external HDD (Packard-Bell, store and save 160GB). My intention is to use this for storing my music liberary (I-tunes), and my digital img/videos from my cameras. 1. Is it possible to run the applications (i-tunes/olympusmaster/picture project) from c: drive, and have the actual music/photos/vids. on the ext HDD(E: drive). 2. If I want to download music/Pictures etc… when the ext.HDD is not connected, and transfer later, is this possible. Meaning that the apps. will work even when i`m not connected. 3. The ext.HDD is preformated in fat-32, and i was told i should change this into NTFS, but dont know how. 4. When i installed it, also installed "data secure", which wants me to create backup for my system.I disabeled it in startup, hope thats ok. Any help/hints/tips will be grately appriciated. Best regards Kris42

1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Use the CD that came with the external HDD to format to NTSF 4. Yes, that's OK Best Regards

Tks Dough! I`ll start with the formatting. A little scary for me, trying to find out what to move, and what not to. If i move my i-tunes liberary, guess i`ll be asked for new paths, and accordingly with my photos/vids? regards kris42

I don't know how you will do it, but I'd make it look alot like my present file structure. if external HDD is X:\ Then save your tunes to: X:\My tunes\ (or a similar structure that looks friendly to your media player or itunes player) Photos: X:\My Photos\ and so on, and so forth. It's only scary the first time. Best Regards Hint: User Edit - Copy and Paste instead of Edit - Cut and Paste That way you still have your originals in case you encounter difficulty with your External HDD Later you can clear(delete tunes and photos) from your C:\ Hard drive, once you're comfortable with accessing your tunes and photos from the External.

thought i would name them identical. If dont get it right, well i`ll just try again. tks, regards kris42