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any size limitiations from win2k do NOT apply via USB. The USB pathwways supercede the Win2K. And the limitations on 2k are 127GB for the max partician size allowable.

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Any hard drive creator have patches that will fix that for any other drive other than the C drive. Of course, I wouldn't recommend any hard drive that size for a pure C drive anyway. I'd partitian a 40-80GB C drive, and then use the patch, and have the D drive be the rest of the physical drive.

I know this, as I'm a dedicatted and loyal win2k user!

Every external drive that I have ever bought (I have 5 of them), show up as FAT in My Computer. I put a 250 gig drive in an external enclosure, and formatted NTFS and both WIN2K and XP had trouble accessing it. It eventually crashed.

Also, with FAT format I never had any problem with formatting one partition and no files size limits. I'm not sure why, but it must be that it is not the main drive.

I use WIN2K on my karaoke computer.

dunno what's going on with your setup, Dennis, but I've got five USB drives, all NTFS, and the only problem I EVER had was when I moved one drive while it was running. So I chalked that up to being an idiot!

All my externals are NTFS, never had a prob to date (knock on wood).

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All NTFS here also.

Kelly

Maybe I just got a bad drive, but it went flaky fast. At the time a couple of years ago, that 250 gig was not cheap.

Since then I've bought only packaged externals (the prices have come down so much it ain't worth messing with it anyway). I got an Iomega 250 and a off brand 250 that I can't remember the name, and a Fire Wire one for my laptop. All of them show up as Drive E and FAT in my computer. I did not format them, just plug and play.

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500 gig with a 16meg cache....smokin' at 135 bucks.....


Definately would go NTFS for XP...

I have an 80 gig Firelight I have had for years and keep my system ghosts on it.
But I just do CAD_CAM and do not have 700 gig of music

If you are going digital format, one drive is not going to cut it....

I would build me an external RAID with it's own power supply if I was in you guys business....

Then you could use internal drives and put them in a RAID drive bay...

Way cheaper.... and you will never have to worry about loosing data...

I just was online wth HP chat.. I have the compaq presario v5105US notebook A 160Gb is availible now and Gary said you can order online Ok how much is it?   $643  Well back to the usb for awhile  LMAO  !60gb and Id still be running out of space...

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the prepackaged externals come in as FAT...

But you can reformat them to NTFS.

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Ya, my Firelight came formatted FAT and I reformatted it.

The only reason you would want to keep the FAT32 format is if you are running old DOS apps, or you would like your media to be able to be read from Win 95-98 or Mac, otherwise use NTFS.

FAT32 can be easily hacked and could not until very recently use password protected files without 3-rd party software.

Some viruses can easily nuke FAT32....