Thread: Anyone know where I can find a laptop IDE adapter?

Quote: Originally Posted by PommieB 30 gigs is a tad small these days and worth very little, I've just removed a 250gig from the Asus and installed a 500g WD, needed to dual boot both flavours of Vista, 64b just doesn't like large drafting programs and I can't afford the A$2000 bucks for the upgrade. Sorry not selling the 250, use it for cloning the partitions. Considering it's an IDE laptop, I dont really mind, it's...

That's weird about the NTFS problem. You would think that windows wouldn't have a problem with it, since that's what the primary hard drive in any windows system is going to be. (these days) But can't you just go to administrator tools and manually initialize an NTFS drive, if it's being picky?

Hummmmmmmmmmm I run my business server on 2 x 30 g miror scii drive.... it's it use at 30 % Windows 2008 .. accounting files and other office files.... depends on the use I guess.

There are no ntfs problems, I move external disks with ntfs, between computers all the time, the only reason I use fat32 at all, is because of media boxes, where only fat32 is compatible, stick with ntfs if you have no macs, fat 32 as too many limitations.

Quote: Originally Posted by justinsn95 Hmm, why Fat32 for this? Wouldn't NTFS be just as good? Just curious. The permissions thing is true, but there are ways around that. The reason i recommed FAT 32 for an external portable drive follows. FAT 32 makes the drive pretty much compatible with any rig you plug it into, it acts like a flash drive. The drawback with FAT 32 on a M$ OS is the filesize limitation, 4GB ima thinkin. With NTFS...

Every OS i've ever ran into in recent years (windows, mac os, and any decent flavor of linux) could read NTFS just not write to it. When I carry an external HDD for diagnostics, and copying stuff. I usually use my 500gb which has two partitions: - 160gb Fat32 partiton - NTFS 320gb

Post a pic, because it sounds like there's a small bracket over the pins that you just pull off.

Quote: Originally Posted by justinsn95 Hmm, why Fat32 for this? Wouldn't NTFS be just as good? Just curious. Permissions issues when trying to use the drive on multiple computers mainly.