[access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives
- From: "Stephen Green" <stephen.tina@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:21:08 +0100
Hi Andy
just a small word of caution in that I bought a couple of Maxtor 250 Gb
external drives and they required a driver from the supplied cd and
definitely did not auto detect when connected to a USB port. Once the driver
was on the system it didn't require it to be loaded again.
Subsequently, I bought a 500 gb Western Digital drive which auto detected
perfectly, so I suggest that you look on the website you purchase from that
your new drive is plug and go. That said, the Maxtor is the only drive I've
ever heard of with this problem.
Secondly, the Maxtors would not store files of more than 2 gigabytes and
would only work with such large files when reformatted from FAT32 to NTFS.
HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives
> I'm using the external fat32 drive for back-up, from an XP NTFS machine.
>
> If I move data back and forth from PC to external drive, and PC is NTFS,
> and
> external drive fat32, does this mattter in any way?
>
> Thanks - Andy
> l Message -----
> From: "Dj Paddy" <mygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:00 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives
>
>
> | Andy,
> |
> | , in a nutshell NTFS is a more rebust and efficient file system than
> FAT32.
> |
> | You don't need to format it to NTFS but IMHO it's nicer.
> |
> | If you're only planning on using the drive on XP or in-time maybe Vista
> then
> | I'd stick to NTFS.
> |
> | If you plan on using the drive on a say Windows 98 machine I'd stick to
> | FAT32.
> |
> | NTFS can be read under 98 but it's a bit more involved.
> |
> | Dj Paddy
> | Ôà
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:00 PM
> | Subject: [access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives
> |
> |
> | Sandra - I bought a plug and go 300GB external Seagate hard drive from
> | Maplins for £89, and haven't reformatted it, leaving it as fat32, and
> all
> | seems ok; so why or what are the advantages of formatting it to NTFS?
> How
> | necessary is this? - Andy
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Sandra Henshall" <oceania@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:02 AM
> | Subject: [access-uk] Re: External Hard Drives
> |
> |
> || Andy, if you don't mind ordering on line,
> || http://www.svp.co.uk
> || are doing some pretty reasonably priced Freecom external hard drives at
> | the
> || moment. I got a 250 gb for £65.00 and that included next day delivery.
> || They also do a 400 gb model for about another tenner I think. I had to
> || format to NTFS and there was lots of info on the net as to how to do
> this
> | as
> || I hadn't a clue. Even before I formatted it, though, it still just
> showed
> || up as an extra drive on my PC. I can send you the info I used about
> || reformatting off list if you need to do this.
> ||
> || Cheers,
> || Sandra.
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