I'm doing it your way... Now, this new one has it's own power supply and looks like a book that stands on one end of it same as you would stack a book on shelves. Because of the location of my USB plug, I have to have this either sitting on top of my desk where everything else is and could likely get knocked over, or I can keep it inside the door of the cabinet where the CPU resides. But keeping it plugged in all the time is my real question here as I would like to only plug it in when I need to transfer something to it and if I do this would that cause any harm to the drive?
Thanks, Patricia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] External Hard Drive Question > Hi Patricia, > > As has already been mentioned, your drive is still formatted as FAT32, so > you'll have to do a full format in order to change it to NTFS. > > You can't do a quick format, as this will simply erase all the data on the > drive, and will not change the file allocation table on the drive, so when > you start writing data to it, it will use the same file allocation table > that it used before the format. > > What you want is the drive to be sectioned into certain parts, and the > data > written into those parts. > > Think of it as getting a glass of dirty water. You can run it through a > filter, and the filter will remove all of the dirty contaminants out of > the > water, so it's fairly clean when you drink it, but you're still drinking > the > same water you ran through the filter. You have to re-fill the glass with > new water before you can drink it, otherwise it really isn't clean. > > Yes, this is a crude way of explaining it, but it's the only way I know > how > to do it right now. Sorry. Sheepish Grin. > > > 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/[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 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/[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 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]
