Greetings Ed!   
      
    EV>>> I will have to go back to making my BU's to the drive that I used   
    EV>>> B4 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.   
      
    EV> I'd rather keep the External USB drives as FAT32 JIC I take some   
    EV> files, that total larger than any of the flashdrives I have, to put   
    EV> on someone older W98SE or ME computer so I'll know I can. I hate   
    EV> computers blocking me from doing what I want to do. -snip-   
      
   I'm not sure that NTFS files can be copied to a FAT32 system.   
      
    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...   
      
    EV> I didn't know W98 could read NTFS drives, I've always used FAT.   
    EV> -snip-   
      
   It won't. NTFS came as an option with W2k...   
      
    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.   
      
    EV> Didn't know XP could do that, the C:\ partition is NTFS but the small   
    EV> D:\ partition is FAT32.   
      
   ????   
      
    EV> I've always used True Image for backups on the XP box.   
    EV> On the 486 I used a backup program that came with the SyQuest EZ-135   
    EV> Parallel Port External HDD.   
      
   I've always used one version or another of Partition Magic to make HDs   
   NTFS, rather than FAT/FAT32. I think the last version I used was v8.0 but   
   I started using it around v5.0 or so.   
      
    EV> I made Duplicate 5 1/4 Floppy Disks for the Commodore 64.   
    EV> After I got a 3 1/2 Floppy Drive for the C=64 I File Copied lots of   
    EV> files from 5 1/4 disks to 3 1/2 disks.   
      
   LOL! Glad that I got rid of that ancient computer stuff long ago. In fact,   
   I sold my Wildcat BBS system files on Ebay. There were all kinds of old 16   
   bit door games and DOS programs on the 100+ 5 1/4 floppies, all c1991.   
      
       Have a day!   
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
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