Re: Problem about the format of USB hard disk

From: Bing.Chen (bing.chen_at_advantech.com.tw.NO_SPAM)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:54:57 +0800

Dear Arlin,

    Do you include both NTFS and FAT components?

    If no, try to add them.

Best Regards,
Bing Chen
2004.06.08

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> Hi,
> The famat of the XPe system hard disk is NTFS. After I put a USB hard
disk which format is FAT, the system can detect it, and I can see it's
symbol in My Computer. But when I want to access it by right-clicking the
mouse, there are some message appear-- the disk haven't formatted, do you
want to format it ?
> Why? The USB hard disk can be accessed by NTFS system, as everyone know.
May be I have missed some component. Who can give me some advise? Thanks a
lot.

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