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Question on WD External Drive
Name: algae1 Date: September 14, 2005 at 21:17:24 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon XP Barton 2500+ /
Comment:
Hi all, I just bought a WD 250 External HD for backup purposes. I just read in the documentation that it "is preformatted as a single FAT 32 partition for compatibility with all Windows operating systems..." My XP Pro system is formatted in NTFS. Is this going to create a problem with an image of my system backed up on this external drive? Thanks for any info Gary
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Name: angrymen2001 Date: September 14, 2005 at 21:54:29 Pacific
Reply:
I don't believe so, but if you're worried about it just format it as NTFS
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Response Number 2
Name: blackbill Date: September 15, 2005 at 02:38:57 Pacific
Reply:
You can use either format and it will work. If you use FAT32 though, you should break it down into a few smaller partitions...FAT32 can sometimes go bad with large partitions There is also a (about) 4 gig file size limit with FAT32.
Ntfs on the other hand does not have these problems, but it is much harder to work with when a screw up occurs.
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Response Number 3
Name: GX1 Man Date: September 17, 2005 at 23:59:11 Pacific
Reply:
No problem with it as is.
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