Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to
format it to NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging through
Microsoft's Knowledge Base, I am finding only instructions for
formatting drives that are in the computer, and only for
formatting them to either FAT 16
: Hard Drive Format
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:09:06 -0600
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to format it to
NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging through Microsoft's Knowledge Base,
I am finding only instructions for formatting drives
If it's larger than 40GB you won't get any options on how to format it,
it will only offer NTFS.
It is formatted the same way as an internal drive.
-Adam
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to format it to
NTFS (I use Windows
On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:21, Tom C wrote:
I believe... it's been a while since I've done it... that you will
be offered the choice of file systems after you've indicated you
wish to begin formatting.
I'll go along with Tom on this one.
It is also possible to CONVERT an existing FAT drive
Sorry, I don't know the links, but it is rather simple.
From a command prompt:
format F: /FS:NTFS
where F: should correspond to the letter assigned by windows to the
drive you want to format.
You can check it by opening My Computer and seeing the letters
corresponding to the drives.
done it... that you will
be offered the choice of file systems after you've indicated you
wish to begin formatting.
Tom C.
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will be
offered the choice of file systems after you've indicated you wish to
begin formatting.
Tom C.
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Need
you've
indicated you wish to begin formatting.
Tom C.
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:09:06 -0600
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I
A warning:
My external drive was formatted FAT32 and I decided to reformat it to
NTFS. A bad idea if you carry the drive around and connect it to other
computers. I lost some valuable files. I formatted the drive again as
FAT32 using the format utility from western digital and my problems
are
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to format it to
NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging through Microsoft's Knowledge
Base, I am finding only instructions for formatting drives that are in
the computer, and only for formatting
See Article ID 309000 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309000
-Paul
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Need help, please.
Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to format it to
NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging
at
your available drives and then plug in the new drive and watch for it to
appear under disk managment.
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Need help, please
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