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


On 31 Jul 2007 at 20:07, jimimoore wrote:

> Hello. Using Vista Home Premium, HP Pavilion a1720n.  I just bought the 
> above mentioned item. I was wanting to use it to get some files off of my 
> old hd's using the USB utility but it doesn't seem to work. In the 
> instructions it says to reformat the drives before using which of course 
> would defeat the purpose for me. I intend to use this later on as a back-up 
> drive AFTER I get the files I need to retreive. Did I buy the wrong thing or 
> is there a way to do this?

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