External drive enclosure questions

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I was thinking of getting one to put an old 4 gig drive (or another drive I
have). I'm running Winxp and 2000 on two different machines so I'm wondering
how do I format it. Can I format it to NTFS and have it work on both
machines or does it have to be fat16 or 32?

Also do I need any special software or is it plug and play like?

Thanks
 
Format it under Win2k. WinXP will read anything that Win2k can write.
I assume that this will be on a USB2 port. My experience with USB is very limited but I think the drive will be detected by plug and pray.
I was thinking of getting one to put an old 4 gig drive (or another drive I
have). I'm running Winxp and 2000 on two different machines so I'm wondering
how do I format it. Can I format it to NTFS and have it work on both
machines or does it have to be fat16 or 32?

Also do I need any special software or is it plug and play like?

Thanks
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Mike Walsh
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Thanks!

I'm thinking the enclosure will be 2.0 compatible but I'm not sure if my 2
computers are 2.0 but the enclosure should be backwards compatible


Mike Walsh said:
Format it under Win2k. WinXP will read anything that Win2k can write.
I assume that this will be on a USB2 port. My experience with USB is very
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limited but I think the drive will be detected by plug and pray.
 
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Hi

I'm running 2 x 250 Gb harddrives in external drive enclosures on my
XP system.

Windows will plug and play and you format in windows as per normal,
no special software is needed.

Thanks.

Rich

I was thinking of getting one to put an old 4 gig drive (or another
drive I
have). I'm running Winxp and 2000 on two different machines so I'm
wondering how do I format it. Can I format it to NTFS and have it
work on both machines or does it have to be fat16 or 32?

Also do I need any special software or is it plug and play like?

Thanks
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