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Toshiba - Canvio Slim II 1TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Silver
Toshiba - Canvio Slim II 1TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Silver
Back up your personal files with this Toshiba Canvio Slim II HDTD210XS3E1 portable hard drive, which features a 1TB capacity for expansive storage and NTI Backup Now EZ software for customizable backup options.
 
Sleek, fast and priced right.
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I'm always skeptical when I don't have the time to fully research a product when I need something right away. This wasn't an impulse buy, it was more of a "I need to get this on the way home or not at all" purchase. I had a large amount of data to transfer from one system to another, it had to be done that night and it had to be fast. I needed to create and transfer a .vhd file off a laptop to my desktop and didn't have any room on the laptop or the desktop to create and store. Hence, the need it right now scenario. The Toshiba was priced right (on sale), it was USB 3.0, and it was a full 1Tb of storage. The file I needed to create was over 500Gb and this was the best option after reading the packaging off all the other devices in this range. I'd buy it all over again if I had to.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Toshiba - Canvio Slim II 1TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Silver
Toshiba - Canvio Slim II 1TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Silver
Back up your personal files with this Toshiba Canvio Slim II HDTD210XS3E1 portable hard drive, which features a 1TB capacity for expansive storage and NTI Backup Now EZ software for customizable backup options.
 

Putting Windows-7 on this external hard drive

I have Windows Vista on my laptop, but want to upgrade to Windows 7. Some of my programs are not compatable with Windows 7 so I want to install Windows 7 on this external hard drive, keeping Vista on the internal drive. Will this idea work? I already purchsed this product but do have 30 days to return if I need to (probably should have thought of this question first!) Thanks for the help!
I'd keep the drive, but I'd go about it a little differently that what you're suggesting. I'd create a virtual hard drive of your laptop, purchase windows 7 pro (32 or 64 bit) or windows 8.1 pro 64bit (don't get the upgrade version because you want to use both at the same time). Wipe the laptop and install the new version of windows. Once completed, create a virtual machine for the vista vhd you have. You may need some additional memory to run both, but it's so much better being able to access both machines at the same time rather than doing some type of dual boot.
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