According to WD's website, their newer drives are coming with NTFS. Presumably just a reflection that they're no longer greatly concerned about Win9x systems.
I don't really care if they put a filesystem on the drives or not. What bothered me was that there was no huge warning anywhere. Instead, I had frustrated employees pulling hair out over erroneous "drive full" errors. On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Fred Holmes <f...@his.com> wrote: > At 03:49 AM 9/23/2009, Tony B wrote: >>Watch out though. A client sent in a couple of these for us to copy >>video files to, and we found they came out of the box formatted to >>FAT32! I had to do a backup and file conversion when I eventually >>figured out why transfers were erroring out with a false "drive full" >>message. > > I think they "all" come pre-formatted with FAT-32 since that is the most > universal format for large drives. FAT-32 will work on a lot of machines > that NTFS and the Apple file system(s) won't. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
