Yeah, I formatted them NTFS, since his existing stuff is also NTFS.
That way I can Ghost his backup easily when he screws it up again.
Actually it's his teenage computer-whiz-wannabes that mess him up a lot.
He brings it to me to get it working again.
They like to change stuff "'cause their friend says it will make the
computer (insert absurd things here)".
He keeps giving them his admin password...
Oh well, at least he pays promptly.
I should charge extra for having to keep a straight face.
You would laff to hear some of their goofy logic.
I need to write a book...
Bruce
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Funck
> Bruce Rice wrote:
> > For a customer, I just put a 160gig drive into an external USB case and
> > partitioned it as two 80 gig drives.
>
> Note that the manufacturers typically (always?) format large USB
> removeable
> drives as FAT32 (for maximum range of OS application). However, FAT32
> has a 4G file size limit. So, if you go to make a back up of say, your
> 20G
> laptop drive and try to store that backup as a single file on the USB
> drive,
> you'll be out of luck (and the error message is rather cryptic).
>
> Recommendation: format your new drive as NTFS unless you have a compelling
> reason not to.
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