04-14-14 14:45 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Texting with a PC   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <534D0C83.12828.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
   Hi Roy,   
   -snip-   
    EV>> I will have to go back to making my BU's to the drive that I used B4   
    EV>> getting the 3TB'er so I can Copy from it to the new drive.  :-(   
      
    EV>> It'll take the same time to do a BU (and DUPE), but me seeing the   
    EV>> whole BU in one piece really surprized me when I first saw it on   
    EV>> that drive.   
      
    RW>> 8^) That's what big drives are for.   
      
    EV> I didn't want to try Copying that backup file on the NTFS drive to   
    EV> one of my Ext. FAT-32 drives. I am not sure if the copying process   
    EV> would break the BIG file into 4GB Chunks that would fit on the older   
    EV> drives I use to keep my backup on.   
      
    RW> Those older drives can be converted to NTFS, if you want to.   
      
   I'd rather keep the External USB drives as FAT32 JIC I take some files,   
   that total larger than any of the flashdrives I have, to put on someone   
   older W98SE or ME computer so I'll know I can.   
   I hate computers blocking me from doing what I want to do.   
   -snip-   
    EV> Probably, if I used a 64-bit OS, but everything here has 32-bit,   
    EV> 16-bit and 8-bit OS's. The new Ext. Drive being NTFS was unexpected,   
    EV> as it wasn't mentioned in the description on the case.   
      
    RW> That's ok. It will work with any Windoz version newer than W98.   
    RW> I began to use NTFS when I installed W2k...   
      
   I didn't know W98 could read NTFS drives, I've always used FAT.   
   -snip-   
    RW>> I began to use NTFS when I first started using W2k...it will do   
    RW>> backups to a safe place all on its own.   
      
   Didn't know XP could do that, the C:\ partition is NTFS but the small   
   D:\ partition is FAT32.   
      
   I've always used True Image for backups on the XP box.   
   On the 486 I used a backup program that came with the SyQuest EZ-135   
   Parallel Port External HDD.   
   I made Duplicate 5 1/4 Floppy Disks for the Commodore 64.   
   After I got a 3 1/2 Floppy Drive for the C=64 I File Copied lots of   
   files from 5 1/4 disks to 3 1/2 disks.   
      
   ... Deja Booboo: The feeling you've messed this up before.   
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