XP's native file system is ntfs, either home or professional. HTH, Richard Q Justice-website owner www.blind-computing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hi-Tech Tarheel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] need advice with an external drive
Hi Aiden, One warning about formatting your external drive as NTFS. If your operating system is on a FAT32 partition, you may not be able to read the external drive in NTFS format. I've encountered this before wiht Windows 2000 and XP. Just a warning if you hit issues reading the drive. XP Pro may handle this. Thanks, Hi-Tech Tarheel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "aiden gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] need advice with an external drive > hi terry, > > You can reformat an external drive in my computer by right clicking the > drive and selecting format. then select ntfs. As for converting your > primary > drive, it can be done using the command line, but for the life of me i > can't > remember what the commands are. could someone help me out here please? > > Hope this is of some use, > > Aiden > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terry Olandese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:42 AM > Subject: [Blind-Computing] need advice with an external drive > > >> Hello group. I have a quick question. I decided to go with the western >> digital external 500 gb hard drive. My computer is formatted in phat 32 >> and so is the external hard drive. When I get the drive, will I be able >> to >> reformat to n t f s? If so, could you give me pointers or a suggestion on >> where I could look to accomplish this? Thanks. >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
