Hi Bill.
I haven't done anything to the external hard drive. As it is my first time I
have bought one. I was told that they come already formatted. And that it
would most likely be NTFS. If I do have to reformat it for the 98 machine to
see it. Will I lose anything on that disk? As I did use Karen's replicator
to make a backup of my word files from my XP system.
thanks Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gallik" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] moving files onto an external hard drive
First, when you formatted the external drive did you not have an option as
to whether to use FAT or NTFS?
Second, it really doesn't matter if the external drive is NTFS if you use
a "Copy and Paste" procedure to get files from your existing drive on to
the external drive. The software on the PC will simply call writes to the
external drive and the drive itself should take care of any "house
keeping" issues to convert said folders/files to NTFS.
Now, if your Windows 98 PC cannot recognize the external drive, you may
need to reformat the external drive as a FAT file system. Or if you could
link your old PC to your new PC and run the backup from you new PC with
the old PC being networked to the newer one, that should likewise resolve
your dilemma.
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