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That's my point exactly. My machine is USB 2.0 All drives are NTFS.
jimi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] External HD Enclosure
>I don't know why there were mentions that NTFS will not work over USB. When
> I needed to connect my wife's IDE drive to my computer, I just plugged it
> into my external USB case and read the contents. The drive had been
> formatted to NTFS using Win XP Pro. All of my external USB drives are
> formatted with NTFS and I have no problems. As noted with my wife's drive,
> the drive does not even have to be formatted in the USB case to be usable.
> I
> am referring to USB 2 devices that I have; I don't know if USB 1 may have
> a
> problem.
>
> Peter
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> USB drives practically always use the FAT32 file system. If your drives
> were already formatted using this system, you should not have to reformat
> them to work in the enclosure.
>
> HOWEVER, if you were using NTFS on your old machine, thatn the enclosure
> probably can't decipher it. You may need to add as temporary IDE card and
> connect your old drives to that to be able to read your old files.
>
> David Gillett
>
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