Re: external hard drive enclosure

Wasn't aware of the size limitation (but never claimed to know everything!).

You could, of course, divide the disk into two or more partitions. I've
done this with two of my external drives, but as it happens I've never
needed to use the FAT32 partitions, despite working on a wide range of
machines.

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"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 27/11/2005 eddie wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I just got one of those external hard drive enclosures and I will be
>> fitting an 80gb hard drive into it but I would like to know if I have
>> to format the new hard drive first so that I can back up files etc.
>> on to it. Thanks for any info
>> from Eddie
>
>
> You can format it after it's fitted.
>
> Bear in mind XP will only format a drive that size with NTFS, if you
> want more flexibility you'll need to find a W98 box and format it with
> FAT32.
>
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