Greetings Ed!   
      
    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   
    EV>>> unexpected, 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...   
      
    EV> When I wrote my sentence about W98/NTFS I was think 'newer than W98'   
    EV> meant W98SE, that was what I was thinking was newer than W98, I   
    EV> wasn't thinking of W2000, I was thinking of things like W98SE and WME   
    EV> were what you meant, I've never seen a W2000 PC but I have had my   
    EV> hands on W98SE and WME and thought both of them were fine OS's   
    EV> contrary to what others had written about WME.   
      
   IMO, there are good things and bad about 98SE and WME...I had installed   
   W98SE over W95 couple hundred years ago. I was glad to get away from both   
   of those when I went straight to W2k...   
      
    EV> I even adjusted to Vista Home Basic asking me if I was sure I wanted   
    EV> to do what I told the computer to do.   
      
   I hate that thing. If I had time for it, I'd look for a workaround to get   
   rid of it.   
      
    EV> I've also got to liking the UAC staying on guard looking at what I   
    EV> can't see happening on the computer.   
      
    EV> I didn't like it at first, but learned when I wanted to use a   
    EV> program, Run As Adminintrator is easier to use with a Vista Standard   
    EV> Users Account than what I have to do with XP to allow the Limited   
    EV> Users Account to do things "I" want to allow.   
      
   There are only two users on this computer, me and the Administrator. I'm   
   also the Administrator.   
      
    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   
    EV>> small   
    EV>> D:\ partition is FAT32.   
      
    RW>> ????   
      
    EV> I meant, I never knew the NTFS C:\ drive could 'backups to a safe   
    EV> place all on its own.', I never heard of that B4, but MS may had   
    EV> dropped that Feature in the designing stages of making the XP OS.   
      
   It isn't so much the OS that does that, it is the NT Filing System doing   
   it.   
      
    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.   
      
    EV> I've heard lots of good praises about Partition Magic, but decided to   
    EV> go the Acronis route when I heard good praises for True Image also.   
      
   I was given PM v5.0 a long time ago. Then I was given v8.0 a short time   
   later. What's nice about it is that if you need more room on one of your   
   partitioned drives, you can run PM and make it any size you need.   
      
    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.   
      
    EV> Glad I gave you a laugh, my friends have always found something about   
    EV> me to laugh at, sometimes I join in with them and laugh at myself   
    EV> too, Why Not?   
      
   I wasn't laughing at you as much as I was laughing over the fact that   
   somebody paid me good money for ancient software that was worthless.   
      
    EV> I told someone yesterday I'm not a Geek or a Nerd, I'm just above the   
    EV> Kindergarten level with my knowledge of computers.   
      
   Same here, although I've been asked to fix them, open them after somebody   
   put a password on their system that was required to get past the boot   
   sequence, etc.. One person used the XXX rated files on her husband's   
   system to get her way in a divorce. I wasn't very happy about that, but he   
   did have some porn on it that bordered on child porn.   
      
       Have a day!   
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
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