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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  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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