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External Hard Drive & Vista
Name: hornman03 Date: March 19, 2007 at 04:49:09 Pacific OS: Vista Ultimate CPU/Ram: 2.2 GHz Athlon/2 gig Product: Self
Comment:
I purchased a Western Digital external hard drive (60 gig) with the expressed idea of using it for a mirror backup image of Vista. Problem I have is that it is not NTFS. Is it possible to format this drive with NTFS so I can use it for Vista Backup. Thanks for any and all suggestions
Name: XpUser Date: March 19, 2007 at 13:37:15 Pacific
Reply:
My bad - you're rite - it's available only in Vista Business, Ultimate, & Enterprise editions according to this page. For those using other Vista editions, Acronis may be the way to go I guess.
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