Re: Computer Backup
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- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:34:50 GMT
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Just make sure that the external HD is formated as NTFS so that you
don't hit the 4GB file size limit of a FAT-formatted drive.
External USB hard drives typically are already formatted and ready
to use, being formatted
FAT 32 so that the whole drive is usable right out of the box..
Truely plug and play. There isn't much of an advantage to
reformatting them to NTFS.
--
Jon
True, but Fat 32 has a limited amount of disk space it can use. NTFS
is unlimited. With the larger drives, Fat 32 may not get all your
data. Just because it says you have a 200GB hard drive formated in
Fat32, does not mean you will be able to use all that space. I'll
have to check my MCSE books tomorrow, but I think it's 30GB.
From wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB minus 1
B (232-1 bytes). For most users, this has become the most nagging limit
of FAT32 as of 2005, since video capture and editing applications and
some other software can easily exceed this limit. Most new windows
machines now ship with NTFS and thus avoid these problems
Absolutely correct, but not complete. That limit is for an individual
file, as you said. FAT 32 has a maximum accessible limit of 2.2
terabytes.
The total partition size that FAT 32 can handle is 512 GB for Windows
98/ME because of the limitations of the fdisk program. The fdisk program
that is included with Windows XP can only utilize 32 GB of disk space
for a single partition, so you need to create the partition as NTFS if
you want it larger than that, and also makes it possible for it to
handles individual files larger than 4 GB. (weird eh, the fdisk in Win98
creates larger partitions?) The DOS fdisk program can utilize the full
drive size up to 2.2 terabytes formatted as FAT 32.
For partitioning a *system* that you are installing Win XP on, you need
to use the fdisk program included with Win XP. Other fdisk programs have
been known to create problems.
Given that I'd specified NTFS for the FILE SIZE LIMITATION - since NT
Backup and the newer package write the total backup to ONE FILE - your
discourse, while interesting, does not apply.
If you're in love with FAT32 that's YOUR problem.
The use of FAT32 slows down disk access under XP and NT.
.
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