04-19-14 18:34 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Texting with a PC   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <5353A403.12842.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
      
   Greetings Roy!   
   -snip-   
    RW> 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-   
      
    RW> It won't. NTFS came as an option with W2k...   
      
   When I wrote my sentence about W98/NTFS I was think 'newer than W98'   
   meant W98SE, that was what I was thinking was newer than W98, I wasn't   
   thinking of W2000, I was thinking of things like W98SE and WME were   
   what you meant, I've never seen a W2000 PC but I have had my hands on   
   W98SE and WME and thought both of them were fine OS's contrary to what   
   others had written about WME.   
      
   I even adjusted to Vista Home Basic asking me if I was sure I wanted   
   to do what I told the computer to do.   
      
   I've also got to liking the UAC staying on guard looking at what I   
   can't see happening on the computer.   
      
   I didn't like it at first, but learned when I wanted to use a program,   
   Run As Adminintrator is easier to use with a Vista Standard Users   
   Account than what I have to do with XP to allow the Limited Users   
   Account to do things "I" want to allow.   
      
    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.   
      
    RW> ????   
      
   I meant, I never knew the NTFS C:\ drive could 'backups to a safe place   
   all on its own.', I never heard of that B4, but MS may had dropped that   
   Feature in the designing stages of making the XP OS.   
      
    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.   
      
    RW> I've always used one version or another of Partition Magic to   
    RW> make HDs NTFS, rather than FAT/FAT32. I think the last version   
    RW> I used was v8.0 but I started using it around v5.0 or so.   
      
   I've heard lots of good praises about Partition Magic, but decided to   
   go the Acronis route when I heard good praises for True Image also.   
      
    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.   
      
    RW> LOL! Glad that I got rid of that ancient computer stuff long   
    RW> ago. In fact, I sold my Wildcat BBS system files on Ebay. There   
    RW> were all kinds of old 16 bit door games and DOS programs on the   
    RW> 100+ 5 1/4 floppies, all c1991.   
      
   Glad I gave you a laugh, my friends have always found something about   
   me to laugh at, sometimes I join in with them and laugh at myself too,   
   Why Not?   
      
   I told someone yesterday I'm not a Geek or a Nerd, I'm just above the   
   Kindergarten level with my knowledge of computers.   
      
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