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You will usually find that USB pen drives are preformatted with FAT or FAT32 by the manufacturer. You can, however, format them with other filesystems.
The FS of choice is FAT32, though: MacOS, *nix and Windows can all handle it.
With USB hard drives, it depends on your mode of purchase: If you purchase the IDE2USB interface seperate from the drive (or if you are upgrading an older HDD), you might not have any partitioning or formatting on your disk at all.
If you buy an off-the-shelf solution, you might end up with an HDD preformatted with NTFS or HFS+, depending on the sticker on the box ("Mac-Ready"/"Vista-Ready"/etc).
Cheers,
Sebastian
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i want to create file system on usb .how to do that.
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Plug the thing into the machine, wait for the drive latter to show up in My Computer. Right-click it and pick Format. You have your choice of NTFS and FAT32 on an XP box.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Hello!
I have installed vista on my hard drive but then I decided to buy a new larger hard drive and transfer eveything from old HD to new one. So I am seeking for a "from HD to HD cloning" software for XP/VISTA.
If you know any would you please let me know.
Thanks. 
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Are the built in utilities of any use to you? Take a look at the 'Backup and restore' option in the control panel, there you are able to make a full system backup which should enable you copy the system to a new partition.
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Symantec Norton ghost 10
Or google search 'hard disk cloning software'
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Acronis Disk Director Suite and Acronis True Image have a cloning product that I use frequently to do just what you are asking. You can even make an image using Acronis True Image and restore it onto a larger drive. It's very easy to do. Will take about 1 minute to set up and it will run for 10 to 30 minutes depending on the size of the image and the speed of the system.
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I am fixing a computer for someone and I have the following problem:
I can format a hard drive plugged into the slave IDE port from within Windows itself, but when I try to ghost an image onto the drive plugged in exactly the same way, it fails. Also, if I try to install Windows on the drive, it gets to the end of the format then tells me the disk cannot be used.
I have had this same thing happen with two different drives, both failing the same way.
Could the motherboard be bad? Any other ideas?
Thanks!
David
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Sounds like the CDROM is bad. Replace the CDROM and the IDE cable connecting it and see if it gets better. If not it might be a motherboard but I'd only be convinced of that after doing the above on the HDD itself.
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Thanks, but I am not using the CDROM, for the imaging, I am ghosting from one hard disk to another, and using the floppy to boot into ghost.
The only time I use the CD is for the XP install.
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Can you move the drive you want to image to a different machine and try the same thing?
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Yeah, that was the next thing I was going to try - installing both drives in another machine and doing the imaging from there.
You know, the thing that sucks about this whole thing is that because hard disks are so big now, it takes forever to do anything with the disks.
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I always start with a 20 gig partition and then use Acronis or some other tool to expand the partition when I'm done.
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I've done that too with Partition Commander. This particular drive has about 50 gig of stuff on it, so ghosting it would be best - copy it and expand it into the new one. But, like I said before, I haven't been able to get it to work with the two drives I have tried.
I guess if it would work in another machine, I should at least replace the IDE cable since I have a couple of spares.
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Hi, my organization just purchase TWIST USB-GRPS to use with the SIM phone and access to internet. But after driver and phone application installation into a testing computer, this device could not detect the GPRS service of the company phone in my country.
When I create a GPRS connection in the testing computer, the application allow me to choose a list of GRPS service but they didn't list the name of the company in my country.
Now we just purchase SAMBA 55 Falcom[^] and it work very well. It could connect internet using GPRS connection with the phone company in my country. I try to find a knowledge base of this TWIST product but i couldn't found it.
If anyone has an experience with this product please give me an advice or solution.
Thank in Advance
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I have one mp3 player .
But I need to change firmware.
For exmaple >
When start mp3 player , That screen have shown "login Window".
How about change the mp3 firmware.
Who 's that know that.
And Mp3 Player firmware Developement Kit.
I very need that
Thank you.
If you know , Send me thank you.
Waiting your advice.
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That would depend on the MP3 player in question, it's manufacturer, and if an SDK even exists for it, which I highly doubt.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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What mp3 player ?
songjacky wrote: That screen have shown "login Window".
 your mp3 player ask you for a login ?
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Hai..
I am developing an application in VC++ to write data to a pen drive without the help of driver.
Still now i could find the attached device and Iam able to get the device information.Now i had the handle to the device.
Can any help me how to proceed further.
I kept this question in many forums, but i could not get answer.
Reply is like we cant do without driver.
But the driver is going to do every thing with the device handle only.
I want to send data packets( copy folders) to the pendrive.
Could any one suggest me.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
vijay
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Vjys wrote: But the driver is going to do every thing with the device handle only.
Asking the question repeatedly won't change the answer. You need a driver! The line I quoted is where you seem to be missing some understanding. The driver, because it is a driver, has access to a whole lot more than just a handle to the device. It uses all that other stuff that the OS exposes to the driver (and only to a driver) to touch the hardware. User mode programs cannot directly access hardware. Period.
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I kept this question in many forums, but i could not get answer.
No, you didn't get the answer you wanted to hear. In fact, some of the replies explained why your answer was wrong. Repeatedly asking the question won't change anything.
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about connect a new circuit to the pc (for example if i want design a circuit for connect a seris of bulbs and i want connect this t the pc and running it with tern on pc)
computer
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And the question would be .....??
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Hey
I have a SAPI application that works great locally. Input via the microphone and output using TTS all work great sitting in front of the PC.
What I'd like to do is operate this application remotely, via a walkie-talkie. Do any of you know if a device exists that could plug into my sound card and receive transmissions and pipe the audio into the mike jack, and take speaker output and transmit it via RF to the walkie-talkie?
I don't even know what that sort of device would be called, so I can't search for it.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
Sean
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Nice idea but it as a large flaw. How is the remote machine going to "Push to Talk"? WT's normally can only receive or transmit at any one time, not both at the same time.
I'm sure you'll find some hardware to do it using a full duplex WT, but there remains the issue of having the machine "Push to talk". Or do you want it to transmit continuously, even if the machine has nothing to "say"?
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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