By the way, how do you like hitachi? I just had one die on me. thanks Nimer J
Lennie Rinaldi wrote: > Victor, > > I think that most new external hard drives come already in NTFS > format. I recently bought a Hitachi external hard drive and it was > formatted that way. > > One of my older external hard drive which I purchased a couple of > years ago was FAT32 and had to be reformatted to NTFS. > > Just thought that you might want to know. > > Lennie > > At 06:12 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote: > >> Hi Patricia, >> >> You've got it, that's exactly what it should say, which is very uncommon. >> >> Any drive I've ever gotten has always been formatted as FAT or FAT32 so they >> will plug into a Windows 98 machine, but it's a nice surprise that yours >> isn't. >> >> Now all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the drive. Smile. >> >> >> >> Victor >> Co-moderator >> Blind Movie Buffs List >> Guidedogs List >> >> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> blind-computing@jaws-users.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following address in order to contact the management team >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]