Thanks, um I hope... This sounds very daunting is all I mean.
But at least it's more than I knew before and wasn't aware of... Patricia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 10:16 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Question > Hi Patricia, > > As you've already seen, most external drives are plug and play, so you > don't > need to do anything else when you plug in the drive. > > I do recommend you do something before you do anything with the drive. > > After you've plugged in the drive, go to the My Computer icon on your > desktop, press enter on it, highlight the external drive, and press > alt+enter to get to the properties. > > Virtualize the window, and arrow down through the information to see what > the drive is formatted as. > > If it says anything but NTFS, like FAT or FAT32, then you need to > re-format > the drive before you use it. > > FAT and FAT32 are more unstable then NTFS, that's why most drives are > formatted in NTFS. > > To format the drive, press escape to close the virtual window, and escape > again to get out of the drive's properties. > > If the drive is still highlighted, press the applications key, and arrow > down to format... > > It will give you the option of which format to format the drive in, at > which > point, you select NTFS, and make sure the size of the drive is correct. > > Tab to the start button, and have at it. Smile. > > > Victor > Co-moderator > Blind Movie Buffs List > Guidedogs List > > > 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/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > 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 address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com 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 address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
