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
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