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Thread ID: 51549 2004-11-24 00:08:00 USB external case won't see NTFS Supertrooper (2510) Press F1
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295591 2004-11-24 02:27:00 Hi don't know if this will help but had a similar problem with a 200gb drive using USB 2 in a caddy and mine did not support ntfs ,although not a problem as I needed to use it on winME, with help from this forum I got it sorted ok
ended up connecting to XP machine and formating Fat32 and partitoning into 32gb chunks reinstalled in cady and has worked fine since
MORK (5007)
295592 2004-11-24 02:28:00 This may be the only fix. If you can't boot from a 32GB partition, your OS is too big. :D Graham L (2)
295593 2004-11-24 03:31:00 > This may be the only fix. If you can't boot from a
> 32GB partition, your OS is too big. :D

Graham, would it not be [b]too big for it's boot[/] ;)
Murray P (44)
295594 2004-11-28 23:29:00 Thanks everyone for the comments and answers - USBMan is an interesting place, found a few answers there too. Supertrooper (2510)
295595 2004-11-28 23:30:00 Hard drive is a Maxtor 120Gb.

Strange thing is that the old USB 1.1 caddy will see the NTFS disk but the newer USB 2.0 won't.

Crazy.
Supertrooper (2510)
295596 2004-11-28 23:40:00 Just thought I would crosspost this here from USBMan - regarding booting from USB:

"WIndows 2000 and XP do not support booting the OS from USB because USB is not a recognized primary storage media - only secondary."
Supertrooper (2510)
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