Thread: External Hard Drive and PE
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Old 09-28-2011, 07:19 AM   #7
ivanjt
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Originally Posted by DianNC View Post
I have a cute little Verbatim drive (500MB) and about half the size of my PE. One of the first things I did was hook them up to see what would happen.

Nothin' LOL.
The PE and EE have limited power output from the USB sockets so it is always better to use a drive that has an external power supply or use a powered hub.

The other problem that can and will be a problem is the format of the drive - the EE and PE do not understand NTFS formatting that windows uses for large hard disks so any drive so formatted will appear blank if it appears at all.

I have a 1 TB drive that is supposed to be self powered but I power it from an in line adapter we made, divided into two partitions, FAT32, and HPFS (OS/2). My EE can read the FAT32 without problems (OK, OS/2 can see and read both hence my using them).
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