[olug] Portable Hard Drives

[Kelly Williams]

I went a bought a new flash drive tonight to take care of the problem.
Thanks for your in put...

Kelly Williams

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:

> I... was in a serious ' wtf ' situation after the first email as well.
>  Kelly, I think you need to describe what you're trying to do.  Ya haven't
> been overly clear.  I assume:
>
> a) you want to hook up a usb external hard drive to a windows xp system at
> college
>
> b) external usb hard drives appear to be 'blocked / disallowed' on these
> windows xp systems at the college
>
> c) usb thumb drives appear to work just fine on the machines at the college
>
> d) you have windows xp and ubuntu at home for fiddling with the external
> hard drive to try to stealth/cloak/whatever it when connected to a windows
> machine.
>
> Is this correct ?
>
> Immediate questions become:
>
> 1) do you know if it's actual college policy to not allow external hard
> drives on their machines ?
>
> 2) if they purposefully disallow external hard drives, is it really worth
> punishment if you break the policy ?
>
> 3) 8 and 16gb usb thumb drives are cheap -- do you really need more space
> than that ?
>
> -Will
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