Hi victor, I am wondering when an external hard drive, for that matter, internal hard drive too, if they were manufactured a while ago and that the NTFS format is now standard with most XP and Vista operating system and probably very few 98 operating system?
That is an interesting question, huh? I am wondering what manufacturers are doing now? Just a thought. I do know that flash disc are in FAT32, at least the ones that I have purchased are. Lennie At 10:59 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote: >Hi Lenny, > >I just bought a Lacie 500 gig drive and found, to my dismay, that it was >formatted as FAT 32, something I didn't find out about until I had >transferred over 175 gigs worth of data. > >Believe me, it was a royal pain to have to move everything back, only to >transfer it all back again. Smile. > >Granted, this was done some months ago, but if mine is any indication, and a >friend just bought a Western Digital 250 a few weeks ago that wasn't in NTFS >format, so I guess it just depends on the model you go with. 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/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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]
