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Hello
I am thinking of buying an external hard drive to use as a back up. The
one I am interested in is a Freecom 80 gb, but it says it uses USB2. Can
someone tell me what that is and how I tell whether on my computer I have
USB1 or 2?

Many thanks

Vince

"Vincent Burgum" <> wrote:

|>Hello
|> I am thinking of buying an external hard drive to use as a back up. The
|>one I am interested in is a Freecom 80 gb, but it says it uses USB2. Can
|>someone tell me what that is and how I tell whether on my computer I have
|>USB1 or 2?

RUN (WinKey+R): devmgmt.msc <enter>

Open the USB controllers - if you see "Enhanced" anywhere in there,
you have USB2.

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On 2005-11-22, Trax <> wrote:
> "Vincent Burgum" <> wrote:
>
>|>Hello
>|> I am thinking of buying an external hard drive to use as a back up. The
>|>one I am interested in is a Freecom 80 gb, but it says it uses USB2. Can
>|>someone tell me what that is and how I tell whether on my computer I have
>|>USB1 or 2?
>
> RUN (WinKey+R): devmgmt.msc <enter>
>
> Open the USB controllers - if you see "Enhanced" anywhere in there,
> you have USB2.

USB2 devices should be able to run on earlier versions of USB socket, and
vice versa; you'll just get slower data transfer than USB2-to-USB2.

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usb2 is backward compatible with usb1
As its a backup drive the 'quicker' usb2 makes no difference

"Vincent Burgum" <> wrote in message
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> Hello
> I am thinking of buying an external hard drive to use as a back up. The
> one I am interested in is a Freecom 80 gb, but it says it uses USB2. Can
> someone tell me what that is and how I tell whether on my computer I have
> USB1 or 2?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Vince
>