I know of no reason why you would have to reinstall Vista just because you
attached an external hard drive. Your mobo does not have an external eSATA
port or an external SATA enclosure would be the way to go. Otherwise buy an
extenal usb hard drive enclosure and something like a Seagate 7200.10 250GB
or 500GB drive and assemble it (easy). There should be nothing else you
have to do but power it up and plug it into a usb port.
I recommend Newegg for the components or for a pre-assembled drive.
"Sirboy" <Sirboy.33nif5@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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> I'm a newbie to Vista and was hoping to find some help.
>
> I have Vista Ultimate 64 installed on my new pc (AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+
> processor, Asus M2N-E mobo, 4 X 1gb Kingston pc2-6400 ram, WD 500gb
> SATAII hard drive, Asus GeForce 8500GT Silent 512mb video card, Antec
> Sonata III 500W case, LG 20X DVD+- drive).
>
> I wanted to buy an external hard drive to transfer my family pics and
> vids from my XP box to my Vista box.
>
> Been reading about some external hard drives not working with Vista
> x64. I've also read that I might ned to re-install Vista with the
> external hard drive connected.
>
> Can anyone recommend an external hard drive that will work with Vista
> x64? Need at least 250 gb hard drive but maybe around 500-750 would be
> optimal (wife takes lots of pics/vids of the kid 
).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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> Sirboy