in locking or closing the window file
FAT (file allocation table) and NTFS (Windows NT file system).
Any external hard drive that presents itself as a standard USB Mass Storage device should work in Windows ME. This is about 95% of the drives on the market. Note that large hard drives may perform very slowly with the FAT32 file system, and Windows ME does not support NTFS.
For drives over 32 GB, Windows 2000 defaults to NTFS. FAT32 is also available for drives under 32 GB.
Most hard drives have only one partition. Each partition is formatted according to one file system. So most hard drives have only one file system. However, many hard drives have two or more partitions. One common approach is to "dual boot" a computer, with Linux on one partition in the ext4 file system format, and Windows on another partition in the NTFS file system.
If you have two hard drives, and one is an IDEE drive using fat32 file structure, and the other is a different kind of drive and file system, your operating system may have difficulty accessing files on one or the other of your hard drives. This is not usually a problem with Windows XP, but older operating systems may not see one or the other of the drives.
Windows can handle multiple I/O requests more quickly.
The traditional industry standard is basic storage.
There is no such thing as a "Mac" or a "Windows" hard drive. From a technological standpoint the hard drives found in Macintosh computers and those found in computer running Windows are identical. Any hard drive with the corresponding interface (SATA, IDE in older Macs, and most SCSI drives in really old Macs) can be used in either computer. The partition table and file system used by each operating system is generally not readable by the other, but the hard drive itself can be formatted and repurposed.
Windows XP has no hard limitation on the number of hard drives, or at least none that has been published. With the way it handles disk drives, it is far more likely you'll run out of space to put the hard drives before you hit any other limit.
Windows Events log
The explorer.exe file is an executable file to run Windows Explorer properly. In the Microsoft Windows operating system, the explorer.exe file runs and has a graphical user interface that you can see when you are opening hard drives or files. You should try restarting your computer when you can not boot the explorer.exe file.
Thumb drives are just like hard drives, any format will work on it.