I have one of those except mine is plug and play. The one you posted requires external Power. Another thing to be noted is, it probably comes as NTFS which some Stand alone Controllers/Devices cannot read. It would be fine on a regular Lappy which usually reads both NTFS and FAT2
ahoustondj, You can always format the drive and change the "Master File Table" (for windows O/S) to eather
Fat 12, Fat 16 and Fat 32= File Allocation Table (
FAT) is the name of a computer file system architecture and a family of industry standard file systems utilizing it. Today, FAT file systems are still commonly found on floppy disks, solid-state memory cards, flash memory cards, and on many portable and embedded devices. As disk drives have evolved, the maximum number of clusters has significantly increased, and so the number of bits used to identify each cluster has grown. The successive major versions of the
FAT format are named after the number of table element bits: 12 (FAT12), 16 (FAT16), and 32 (FAT32). Each of these variants is still in use. The FAT standard has also been expanded in other ways while generally preserving backward compatibility with existing software.
NTFS=New Technology File System (NTFS) is the standard file system of Windows NT, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, and all their successors to date.
NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the preferred file system for Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. NTFS has several improvements over FAT and HPFS (High Performance File System) such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization, plus additional extensions such as security access control lists (ACL) and file system journaling.
you new drive should have come with documantation and how to's
Futher reading,
The partition type code for a primary partition on a harddisk can either correspond to a file system contained within
(e.g. 0x07 means either an NTFS or an OS/2 HPFS file system) or indicate that the partition has a special use
(e.g. code 0x82 usually indicates a Linux swap partition). The FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have made use
of a number of partition type codes due to the limits of various D.O.S and Windows OS versions. Though a
Linux operating system may recognize a number of different file systems (ext4, ext3, ext2, ReiserFS, etc.)
they have all consistently used the same partition type code: 0x83 (Linux native file system).
for a good read check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive
if your looking for a faster Drive look in to a Solid-state drive (no moving parts) you can boot to windows as soon as the computer is powered on, yeah, its that fast (so I have been informed)
Happy formatting
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