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Old May 21st 08, 01:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers,microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Mike M
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Default 2 External USB HD for XP and ME

M.I.5 wrote:

Almost all of them do. Two issues though: you have to use the FAT32
filing system for WinME to recognise the disk. WinME will almost
certainly require a driver to be loaded. This can usually be
obtained from the drive manufacturer's website, but look out for a CD
in the drive packaging.


Win Me should have the necessary usb drivers, it is Win 98/98SE that
usually requires additional drivers however if the want to use USB 2.0
they will need to look for suitable chipset drivers on the motherboard
manufacturer's web site. Another issue is if using a large drive (137GB)
as Win Me does not properly support large drives and whilst initially all
may appear OK problems build up as the disk fills with resulting file
corruption. This shouldn't be a problem here as the OP mentions a 75GB
drive.
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Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows