Western Digital My Book 250 - formatting in XP

[kupchik]

I have a Western Digital My Book 250 GB external harddrive connected
via USB 2.0 to an XP SP2 system. It came formatted via FAT32 from the
vendor with a footnote in the instruction manual that I might want to
re-format it in NTFS mode.

This is the second drive I purchased, the first had to be returned
before 30 days were up due to numerous problems shown in the event
viewer and the fact that the drive would disapper and I had to reboot
to get it back. I re-formatted this 1st drive as NTFS which seemed to
make it much faster, but I wonder was this the cause of my problems.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a Western Digital My Book 250 GB external harddrive connected
via USB 2.0 to an XP SP2 system. It came formatted via FAT32 from the
vendor with a footnote in the instruction manual that I might want to
re-format it in NTFS mode.

This is the second drive I purchased, the first had to be returned
before 30 days were up due to numerous problems shown in the event
viewer and the fact that the drive would disapper and I had to reboot
to get it back. I re-formatted this 1st drive as NTFS which seemed to
make it much faster, but I wonder was this the cause of my problems.

Shouldnt be.

 

[Neil Maxwell]

I have a Western Digital My Book 250 GB external harddrive connected
via USB 2.0 to an XP SP2 system. It came formatted via FAT32 from the
vendor with a footnote in the instruction manual that I might want to
re-format it in NTFS mode.

This is the second drive I purchased, the first had to be returned
before 30 days were up due to numerous problems shown in the event
viewer and the fact that the drive would disapper and I had to reboot
to get it back. I re-formatted this 1st drive as NTFS which seemed to
make it much faster, but I wonder was this the cause of my problems.

I have one of these, reformatted as NTFS, and used for backups on a
new laptop. It's going off to college with my daughter in a few
weeks, and I've been putting it through some workouts this week.

I've only had it about a week, and have had no problems so far. I
like that it shuts down and restarts when the system does. It's a bit
slow on backup/restore from a True Image 8 boot disk, but is a good
bit faster in WinXP. Dunno if the slowness is due to TI's support for
the Dell hardware or not. I may try it with a TI9 boot disk and see
if it's any faster.

 

[kupchik]

I re-formatted the drive to NTFS yesterday afternoon and everything
seems to be ok and much faster than under FAT32. Hopefully the problem
was that the first drive I got was defective. I'll update the board
again in a few days if all is still going well.