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More info?)
Yes and no...
You can format it as NTFS, but then it won't be easily read/writeable by
anything else than XP...(Linux writing to NTFS is not guaranteed)
So if it ever needs to be connected to a machine running a Win9x series
OS...
Removable HDs are recommended to be formatted FAT32..
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"Ed Y" <edyoung39@hotmail.com> kirjoitti viestissä
news:O4utYGZtEHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Is there any reason that I can't format a USB 2.0 external hard drive
(Teac
> 80GB) to NTFS? It came with FAT32 on it. I'm running Win XP Home SP2.
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> Thanks,
> Ed
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