usb drive
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You will usually find that USB pen drives are preformatted with FAT or FAT32 by the manufacturer. You can, however, format them with other filesystems. The FS of choice is FAT32, though: MacOS, *nix and Windows can all handle it. With USB hard drives, it depends on your mode of purchase: If you purchase the IDE2USB interface seperate from the drive (or if you are upgrading an older HDD), you might not have any partitioning or formatting on your disk at all. If you buy an off-the-shelf solution, you might end up with an HDD preformatted with NTFS or HFS+, depending on the sticker on the box ("Mac-Ready"/"Vista-Ready"/etc).
Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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You will usually find that USB pen drives are preformatted with FAT or FAT32 by the manufacturer. You can, however, format them with other filesystems. The FS of choice is FAT32, though: MacOS, *nix and Windows can all handle it. With USB hard drives, it depends on your mode of purchase: If you purchase the IDE2USB interface seperate from the drive (or if you are upgrading an older HDD), you might not have any partitioning or formatting on your disk at all. If you buy an off-the-shelf solution, you might end up with an HDD preformatted with NTFS or HFS+, depending on the sticker on the box ("Mac-Ready"/"Vista-Ready"/etc).
Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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i want to create file system on usb .how to do that. -- modified at 9:35 Monday 12th March, 2007
Plug the thing into the machine, wait for the drive latter to show up in My Computer. Right-click it and pick Format. You have your choice of NTFS and FAT32 on an XP box.
Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic