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USB external devices - do they handle NTFS?
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11/01/2007 09:28:44
 
 
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Windows
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Computing in general
Miscellaneous
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01184506
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Thanks Tracy, AND FOR THE LINKS TOO.

Luckily, I won't be using it as a boot drive. I just need to copy all of my working data to another system.

cheers

>Yes, supporting NTFS is not the issue (I have one and it is formatted NTFS - in fact many come formatted that way out of the box). The question is whether or not it will be your primary boot device and if so, how to accomplish that. Technically, Windows will not boot from a USB harddrive. Also, the device cannot go through a USB hub if you plan to use this device for continuous reads/writes. You may want to read the bottom of this page:
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>http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=1015
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>and here some instructions:
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>http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
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>>As my computer woes continue my thought is to take my data drive from the system and put it into one of those external USB enclosures so that I can extract my data to another system or 2.
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>>Does anyone know if these devices support NTFS?
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>>While I think it's not a problem, am I correct that there should be no problem installing a 10,000 rpm drive into such a box?
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>>Any comments appreciated.
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