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

[Gerald Levy]

Joel,
NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is the default format for all 
internal hard drives in most modern Windows computers.  FAT32 is a different 
format which is popular for flash drives because it has a file size 
limitation of 4gb, which is the capacity of many flash drives these days, 
although capacities up to 128gb are now available.  Which of these formats 
your particular drive is formatted to is of little consequence unless you 
wish to download files larger than 4gb to a FAT32-formatted drive, in which 
case it would have to be reformatted to NTFS.

Gerald
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] information on a U S B portable disk drive


> Al,
>
> what does all that mean? I'm not someone who's able to just talk like 
> that,
> please understand. I barely remember that FAT stands for files allocation
> table, and I don't have any idea what that means. What is this other thing
> you're talking about? NT something? When I look at the properties of 
> almost
> any file on my Win P Home computer, it says its FAT 32, and then says how
> many bytes, or megs big it is. That's all I ever see. What is this other 
> set
> of initials?. Something like System Access for Azerbaijanis? If jaws knew
> more, it would have pronounced that properly but I'm not going to spend 
> half
> an hour figureing out how to trick jaws into saying it right. Sorry. 
> People
> from Azerbaijan. Hmm. That's a little closer to reality, although not 
> quite
> right. I should have thought of some other exotic country with a simpler
> name. Jaws is such a hard taskmaster. I have to really be on the ball to
> trick it into saying a lot of things properly. That's just part of the fun
> of the blessed inconvenience, for which I give thanks every day for the
> challenges it puts before me so my efforts will increase my courage and
> deepen my understanding.
>
> Okay. How about is that System Access for Greeks? Jaws had no trouble with
> that one. I had to try a few country names before I hit on it, though,
> because it couldn't speak properly about people from a few other 
> countries.
> This has to do with the programming of Eloquence, of course, which is very
> complex, and about which I'm no expert. LOL
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:37 AM
> 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
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:13 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] information on a U S B portable disk drive
>
> 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.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "plume" <blume at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 6:47 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] information on a U S B portable disk drive
>
>
>> 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.
>> From, Tom Blume
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