04-20-14 08:31 TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT about Texting with a PC   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <535445B9.12843.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> EV> I'd rather keep the External USB drives as FAT32 JIC I take some   
    RW> EV> files, that total larger than any of the flashdrives I have, to put   
    RW> EV> on someone older W98SE or ME computer so I'll know I can. I hate   
    RW> EV> computers blocking me from doing what I want to do. -snip-   
      
    RW>I'm not sure that NTFS files can be copied to a FAT32 system.   
      
    TW> I do it all the time. Things are fine as long as the FAT32   
    TW> Maximum file size(4 gig) is not exceeded   
      
   Thanks Tom,   
      
   That's what I thought too.   
   When the backup finished that I made on the 3TB NTFS drive it was   
   well over that 4 Gig FAT32 'standard'.   
      
   Something like 19GB IIRC, I keep that drive in the box it came in after   
   reading a few months ago about if Malware got on my XP box it would   
   see any external USB drives that were connected and turned ON and do   
   what it wanted to do with those drives too.   
      
   As I told Roy, I'm going to continue backing up to one of my FAT32   
   drives and copy that backup to the new 3TB NTFS drive.   
      
   As you have said many many times Belt AND Suspenders!   
   I also have several Older full backups on those old FAT32 HDDs that I   
   used to keep by B&S backups on.  Thanks!   
      
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