Actually, it was an internal, and it was about a year and a half.
Thanks
Nimer J

Lennie Rinaldi wrote:
> Hi Nimer,
>
> I also have a Hitachi 500 GB internal hard drive. I use this one for 
> all my MP3 music and recordings. So far, that one is working just fine.
>
> I had a bad experience with my previous internal hard drive that died 
> on me after 2 years. That one was a Western Digital and also was 500 GB.
>
> I use the Hitachi external hard drive which is also 500 GB. to back 
> up anything that I saved on the internal hard drive. So far, that one 
> has been working fine. Both drives are 5 months old. How old was your 
> Hitachi external hard drive when it died on you?
>
> Lennie
>
> At 11:55 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote:
>   
>> 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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