Because it is just a standard hard drive, albiet external. Even if you could
get it to work, it wouldn't be any faster as the main purpose of Readyboost
is to take advantage of the faster flash memory. Your external drive is no
faster than any other hard drive...
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Dustin Harper
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"guitardude" <guitardude@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a western digital 320 gig external hard drive. I was surprised to
>find out that I couldn't use some of that space with ReadyBoost, or at
>least the ReadyBoost tab in the device properties says I cant. Its USB 2.0
>and it definitely has enough space to support it, so why doesn't it? Thanks
>in advance for any help,
> guitardude