A warning: My external drive was formatted FAT32 and I decided to reformat it to NTFS. A bad idea if you carry the drive around and connect it to other computers. I lost some valuable files. I formatted the drive again as FAT32 using the format utility from western digital and my problems are gone.
Toine On 4/27/06, Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need help, please. > > Remember that USB hard drive that I ordered? I will need to > format it to NTFS (I use Windows XP Home). Rummaging through > Microsoft's Knowledge Base, I am finding only instructions for > formatting drives that are in the computer, and only for > formatting them to either FAT 16 or FAT 32. > > Can someone send me a link to the correct instructions? > > Thanks, > > Joe > >
