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Ixeon
will it work? what drivers i must 2 install?
Mijzelf
You'll need 2 drivers:
1) A driver for the USB disk itself, for instance this one.
2) A NTFS file system driver. You can find a discussion on these here.

And yes, it *can* work.
Ixeon
Oh, I forgot to ask, i heared about win9x problem with hard drives over 137 GB. Is there any problem with usb hdd like this?
Mijzelf
No. The LBA48 problem is related to the default W9x IDE driver, which is not used for an USB disk.
galahs
Why format it as NTFS, wouldn't FAT32 be better?
Chozo4
If I recall - some usb drives are being shipped pre-formatted with NTFS as of late which could be why.
galahs
Mine was pre formatted with NTFS

I used SwissKnife V3.22 (Convert NTFS to FAT32) --- http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm to make a 350GB FAT32 drive
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