Support for USB mass storage routinely assumes FAT32 drive formatting.  If 
this what you were using on the prior machine, there's a reasonable chance 
that you old drive does not need to be reformatted to work.
  But if you were using NTFS, then you may need some other way to transfer 
those files.

David Gillett



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

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> 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?
> 
> Thanks to all,
> 
> jimi 
> 
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