Q: I'm sure a few of these may be stupid questions but I personally don't know anyone who has an external hard drive or how they look or work. I know they hook into the USB, I have one on the front of my tower and it looks as if there are a couple in the back of it, is that what they are? I hate to get one and find I have to have it plugged into the front, as to I plug in my player and stuff there. I know, stupid question but if I don't ask, I won't ever know. Also do the external hard drives always have to stay plugged in? I basically want one so I can store more pictures, music etc... do they really backup everything on your computer? Like what would happen if I get one and then down the road get a new computer, what will happen? Will it all stay in there, will it automatically go into the new computer? I have read some stuff on them but I want to really understand how it works and what it can do before I think of getting one. Sorry if all this is stupid to you computer whizzes but I'm wanting to learn about this. Thanks for your time.
A: 1.the hard drives that use USB are the once that have a tail similar to your player :) (got it?). you can connect it to the couple of USB port that you have already identified and leave the front ones for the player and stuff, they are the same (both front n back) 2. if you have not installed any operating system (Windows) on the external hard drive, you can plug it out any time you want, just use the "safely remove hardware" option on the lower right side of your task bar 3. the hard drive will save anything you want it to, including your music pics, etc... you can even plug it out as mentioned above and transfer the files to another computer 4. like I said you can use the external hard drive with any computer, to use it on your new pc, just plug it out of the older one and plug into the new one, simple 5.whatever you save on it, stays on it, till you delete it :P points 2-5 apply only if you dont have your operating system on the external hard disk, which is not recommended anyways.