External Hard Drive

[Davie Lee]

I have to get an External hard drive for my laptop.I have a Dell Inspiron 8200
It has windows Xp also a 40G hard drive.What kind of external hard drive should I buy. To have enough memory for Karaokee and my MP3 files.I had
my hard drive go out on me and Dell replaced it. I had the old one cloned
so I could save my karaoke music I have on Hoister. I have been told that
I have to reinstall Micro studieo & Hoister on my hard drive. Should I wate
untill I get a new External Drive and install the Micro & Hoister on it.
Thank You
Davie Lee