Toshiba stylish 400 gb portable usb 2.0 hard drives

Toshiba stylish portable usb 2.0 hard drives are movable outside hard drives.This hard drive comes in variety of colors such as "Electric Blue and Black” as well as Carbon Grey, Hot Rod Red and Green.
This is a 400 GB outside hard drive connecting via USB 2.0 and has 8MB shock absorber.The size of this hard disk is 0.65 by 3.2 by 5 and weighs about 6oz.
Preloaded NTI software allows mechanical backup of credentials and files.
It is well matched with windows xp,vista and MAC OS X 10.3.9 and later.

use pendrive as RAM (Random Access Memory) for your system

• Windows Vista hit the market on Jan 30 and with it brought out some cool new features and system optimization way developed by Microsoft especially for it. One of the most important and the most talked feature of Vista is its ability to use a Pen Drive as a RAM and is called "Ready Boost" feature in Vista, thus increasing your system memory and the performance enhancement was incredible.
  
  So, what you need to increase your system memory in Vista is not a RAM but a Fast USB Pen Drive. Notice the word Fast as this is a special USB Pen Drive that is faster than normal Pen Drives but remember that every pen drive is slower than the RAM, however the increase in performance is significant. Ok, what all of you might be asking me is how do we know if my pen drive is a "Ready Boost" compatible pen drive. Don't worry, just look at the following list and find your pen drive, if it's there it's Bingo for you, if it's not just go and buy it from the market.
  
  Now lets move on to the next part and see how really you can make your pen drive to work as a RAM. The process is actually simple and you really don't need to have some expertise knowledge of Vista, just the basic will do.
  
  Insert your Pen Drive into the USB port.
  1: In the "Autoplay" dialog box, click on the option "Speed Up my system".
  2: Windows Vista will test your stick and it will open the properties of the removable device. In the "Ready Boost"tab, activate the "Use this device" option.
  3: Adjust the slider and set the memory size for Ready Boost which should be at least your current system memory and can go at most two and a half times of your memory.
  Just click "OK" and you are done.
  4: Vista will simply reserve some memory space for itself whenever you boot into Vista and will delete all the files and free up the used space on your Pen Drive when the computer shuts down.

BOOT AND RUN WINDOWS XP FROM A PEN DRIVE

When virus infection or windows registry error occurs ,It makes your system unbootable.In such a case it is useful for you which is replacement for windows operating system.
BARTPE is a free utility which will give you complete WIN32 environiment with network support a graphical user interface and FAT/NTFS/CDFS File System Support.
Do not confuse BartPE with Microsoft's Official Windows PE. BartPE has got some interesting features as compared to Windows PE and it's a freeware.

Requirements to install BartPE:
<1>USB Flash drive with at least 256 MB of storage capacity.
<2>The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.

How It Works :
1.PE Builder, condenses the original setup data for Windows XP into a slender operating system that is ready to run from or a USB flash drive.
2.This compact, portable version of Windows includes all the important system tools for dealing with a PC emergency.
3.You can even add other programs to this collection, such as the media writing tool Nero Burning ROM or an anti-spyware package such as Ad-Aware SE Personal, during the installation process.

Steps Involved :
1.Download the latest PE Builder version (self-installing package) and install it.
Start PE Builder (pebuilder.exe) and insert Microsoft Windows XP installation/setup CD, it will condense the setup files into your pen drive.
2.At the main PE Builder dialog, select the "Pen Drive" option. Hit the "build" button. PE Builder will now ask you to create a BartPE directory, answer with "yes".
PE Builder will now start building BartPE. This will take a few minutes. You will see a lot of files getting copied and/or decompressed, into your pen drive. If the data verify was correct and there where no errors reported you can boot the Pen Drive.

Booting-Linux-from-a-pendrive

Now it is easy to boot and run linux from a pen drive.But it requires a
1.1GB pen drive
2.HP USB FORMAT tool
3.USBDSL.ZIP file.
These are the requirements for booting and running linux from a pen drive.
The main advantages of running of linux from a pen drive is as follows:
1:It enables to run linux on any computer you like that can run from a flash drive.
2:IT allows you to carry online mails,settings,favorites and many more with you.
3:You can carry it anywhere and run on any system that supports usb.
Now comes to running Linux on a computer or pc
1:Format your usb pen drive using HP usb format tool
2:Download usbdsl.zip from internet.It is a mini linux called dammn small linux
3:Extract the contents of USBDSL.ZIP contents into your usb pen drive and
4:browse to your pen drive and click on "MAKEBOOT.exe".
5:Follow the instructions on the screen.
6:Reboot your computer and set your BIOS to boot from USB-HDD or USB-ZIP,
also set the boot priority if necessary.

<1>The necessary point is when your mother board doesnot support usb boot feature then you will not be able to boot linux from usb drive.
<2>your system should support .NET FRAMEWORK