is not essential to its use. Generally its used either for backup or encryption purposes. If your Win2K machine has USB functionality, it can use the drive just fine but you may run into some size limitations. If it comes formatted as FAT32, you'll want to repartition and format the drive using NTFS and Win2k can do that. The drive just becomes like any other attached to the system with it's own drive letter(s) depending on the number of partitions created.
Now, I'm going to guess your motherboard offers only USB 1.x. This will leave the drive a bit on the pokey side but it should work. I'll suggest that, if you want Win7 compatibility as well, that you use Win2k to initialize the drive and not Win7 or some third party solution. Good luck.
My beloved college desktop is now pushing ten years old and sits dormant in my garage. It's time to part ways, but I can't let go b/c it has some "important" files (music, videos, photos, etc) that I want to save elsewhere. So, I bought an external hard drive, but once I opened the package, I realized that it's software is not compatible with Windows 2000, which is what the desktop is running. I was thinking of transferring the data in small chunks using a flash drive but have been dreading the effort it will take to do so. Then, today, a friend told me that there may be a way to "reformat" the external hard drive and use it like a jump drive.
I'm looking for any advice about whether this is possible and, if so, the specifics of how.
If it's not possible, I'd appreciate suggestions re: any affordable external hard drives that are still compatible with windows 2000 AND windows 7.<div>Thanks much in advance!
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