[gui-talk] information on a U S B portable disk drive

[Gerald Levy]

Actually, most large-capacity portable hard drives already come formatted to 
NTFS these days.  Flash dives, with much smaller memory capacities come 
formatted to FAT32.

Gerald
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From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] information on a U S B portable disk drive


>I don't think you're forced to install the software on any of them.
> However, many of them come formatted to fat32 and you want to use NTFS for 
> a
> number of reasons unless you're running Win-98.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Don H
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>
> I have two Western Digital external hard drives and they are plug and play
> and act no different than a internal drive other than being a little 
> slower
> since they are USB.  They do have auto backup buttons on them I just don't
> use them.
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>
>> Hello Everyone,
>> I would like to buy a U S B portable disk drive.
>> I have been reading about them on several web sites and many will say,
>> "back
>> up automatically" I am only interested in installing, programs, data,
>> music,
>> videos.
>> Are there any brands that are screen reader friendly?
>> Are there any brands that are plug and play without installing software
>> that
>> might not be screen reader friendly?
>> Thanks for any information.
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