Allen - You are exactly right; and MS's support forums show a lot of
queries on this bizarre piece of engineering!
Question - Can I use convert.exe in Vista to make the WD external drive
an NTFS? Will it save my data? The drive is about 2/3 full.
Thanks
Quentin Fisher
Bethesda, MD
From: "Alle
>Any ideas? WD blows it off by saying its probably Vista's doing, but no
>specifics. Makes it incremental backup impossible.
As others have written, a poorly thought out file system and/or OS can
have this problem. It turns out that working across time zones is not as
easy as it seems and tossi
My XP Media Center (PRO)/SP3 changed time automatically OK.
Richard P.
> Speaking of time stamp ...windowsXPhomeSP3 refused to start Monday and when
> it did the time was off by 2 hrs and I had to go into the time/date utility
> and tell it to check the time with which everything was fine ...usua
Speaking of time stamp ...windowsXPhomeSP3 refused to start Monday and when
it did the time was off by 2 hrs and I had to go into the time/date utility
and tell it to check the time with which everything was fine ...usually it
just did it without the nudge ...wazzat?
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You can determine the file system quickly by simply right clicking the
drive>Properties.
But does anyone really ship these with FAT32? That would mean no files >2gb
or (4?).
If you have to convert:
http://tinyurl.com/6m4gc7
http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jud
Windows Explorer is pretty much a GUI Graphical User Interface,
enabling you to see things and access them.
The true GUI is Windows XP or Leopard, or Linux, but they all use a
GUI (windows explorer, gnome, and a number of otehrs as I do not know
what apple calls theirs,) as a desktop to manag
> but, i still don't understand.
> to me, a file system is Windows Explorer.
> so, obviously we're talking about different things!
The file system is what Windows Explorer explores. :)
(Well, sorta. It explores other stuff too, but mainly you're looking at
stuff that the file system has organized
> what is NTFS?? Well, I see it is a "file system," but what is that?
It's how the files are organized on the disk. In the PC world there are two
primary file systems, FAT and NTFS. FAT is the older system; it uses
somewhat less space and is OK for smaller drives, but for larger drives the
newer N
but, i still don't understand.
to me, a file system is Windows Explorer.
so, obviously we're talking about different things!
Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) wrote:
It is Microsoft's file system: New Technology File System. Remember
Windows NT?
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
what is N
It is Microsoft's file system: New Technology File System. Remember
Windows NT?
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
what is NTFS?? Well, I see it is a "file system," but what is that?
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how does one upgrade an external drive?
what is NTFS?? Well, I see it is a "file system," but what is that?
Allen Firstenberg wrote:
Your Vista machine is probably using NTFS for its file system. Your
external drive is probably using FAT32. NTFS handles DST correctly,
while FAT32 does not.
Your Vista machine is probably using NTFS for its file system. Your
external drive is probably using FAT32. NTFS handles DST correctly,
while FAT32 does not.
Solution is to upgrade the external drive to NTFS (or some other real
file system).
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:30:24PM -0500, Q. Fisher w
Why would this interfere with incremental backups? In an incremental, only
*changed* files are supposed to be included. Besides, even if it depended on
time instead of changes, just do one full backup.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Q. Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I back up my Dell (runn
I back up my Dell (runnung Vista) to a WD My Book 500 Gb External hard
dive.
With the changeover to Standard time, all the files on the External
drive now show timestamps one hour later than all the files on my C
drive. The time stamps on another backup drive (Maxtor) and on DVD's
agree, so t
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