This may be specific to the enclosure.  My current enclosure will NOT 
use NTFS.  I bought it less than a year ago.

Tony Mayer



Peter Shkabara wrote:
> 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
> ----------------------------------
> 
> 
> -----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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