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Hard Drive Restore Question
"BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Scott typed on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:24:54 -0500: I'm thinking that when I formatted the external drive originally, it wouldn't accept a larger than 32GB partition in FAT32, which is why I put it in NTFS format. I've restored to Win98 in this format several times with no problem. I'm still thinking it makes more sense to put the Win98 images on a FAT32 partition. Hi Scott. Yes I can see the point of that. vbg When I get the new external drive in two days, I'll try formatting a larger partition in FAT32, and I'll let you know. Keep me posted on your test. I just tried it with this netbook under Windows XP SP2. The only choice was NTFS and that is all for this 60GB drive. So I must have used a partition manager (some are free too). But I checked under Acronis True Image and on the top Tools - Add Drive, will partition it and format it in FAT32 too. I checked this site, and I'm wondering what they mean about: "allow the FAT32 partition to work with the P+". What is P+ ? Fortecstar Passion+ is my guess. And I guess it is an UK satellite DVR I think. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 Bill, I received the 750GB WD external drive. I used that free program, Swiss Knife", to format a 173GB partition in FAT32. Then I used WinXP - Control Panel/Computer Management to format the second partition in NTFS. Everything is working well. It looks like the 750GB drive has only 698GB of usable drive space, but I guess that's the way it is. I deleted the software that came pre-installed on the WD drive. Thanks again! Scott |
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"BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Scott typed on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:24:54 -0500: I'm thinking that when I formatted the external drive originally, it wouldn't accept a larger than 32GB partition in FAT32, which is why I put it in NTFS format. I've restored to Win98 in this format several times with no problem. I'm still thinking it makes more sense to put the Win98 images on a FAT32 partition. Hi Scott. Yes I can see the point of that. vbg When I get the new external drive in two days, I'll try formatting a larger partition in FAT32, and I'll let you know. Keep me posted on your test. I just tried it with this netbook under Windows XP SP2. The only choice was NTFS and that is all for this 60GB drive. So I must have used a partition manager (some are free too). But I checked under Acronis True Image and on the top Tools - Add Drive, will partition it and format it in FAT32 too. I checked this site, and I'm wondering what they mean about: "allow the FAT32 partition to work with the P+". What is P+ ? Fortecstar Passion+ is my guess. And I guess it is an UK satellite DVR I think. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 Bill, I received the 750GB WD external drive. I used that free program, Swiss Knife", to format a 173GB partition in FAT32. Then I used WinXP - Control Panel/Computer Management to format the second partition in NTFS. Everything is working well. It looks like the 750GB drive has only 698GB of usable drive space, but I guess that's the way it is. I deleted the software that came pre-installed on the WD drive. Thanks again! Scott The difference between 750GB and 698GB depends on who does the math, Microsoft or the drive manufacturer (and us in the real world). Windows computes drive capacity the lazy programmer's way, using 1024 instead of 1000. 1024 saves CPU cycles, very important when one is programming an 8088 from 25 years ago, because to divide by 1024 is simply a shift of the value in the computer's register(s) right 10 bits. Typically, a shift instruction takes fewer clock cycles than a divide instruction. With today's computing power, who cares that a divide is slower than a shift? Microsoft should do right and simply use divides by 1000 all the way throughout Windows, but if they do, something in their fragile Windows mess would break... Ben Myers |
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Scott typed on Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:12:24 -0500: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Scott typed on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:24:54 -0500: I'm thinking that when I formatted the external drive originally, it wouldn't accept a larger than 32GB partition in FAT32, which is why I put it in NTFS format. I've restored to Win98 in this format several times with no problem. I'm still thinking it makes more sense to put the Win98 images on a FAT32 partition. Hi Scott. Yes I can see the point of that. vbg When I get the new external drive in two days, I'll try formatting a larger partition in FAT32, and I'll let you know. Keep me posted on your test. I just tried it with this netbook under Windows XP SP2. The only choice was NTFS and that is all for this 60GB drive. So I must have used a partition manager (some are free too). But I checked under Acronis True Image and on the top Tools - Add Drive, will partition it and format it in FAT32 too. I checked this site, and I'm wondering what they mean about: "allow the FAT32 partition to work with the P+". What is P+ ? Fortecstar Passion+ is my guess. And I guess it is an UK satellite DVR I think. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 Bill, I received the 750GB WD external drive. I used that free program, Swiss Knife", to format a 173GB partition in FAT32. Then I used WinXP - Control Panel/Computer Management to format the second partition in NTFS. Everything is working well. It looks like the 750GB drive has only 698GB of usable drive space, but I guess that's the way it is. I deleted the software that came pre-installed on the WD drive. Thanks again! Scott Thanks for the update Scott. And yes that is normal. grin -- Bill Windows XP SP2 (5.1.2600) Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC |
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"BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Scott typed on Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:12:24 -0500: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Scott typed on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:24:54 -0500: I'm thinking that when I formatted the external drive originally, it wouldn't accept a larger than 32GB partition in FAT32, which is why I put it in NTFS format. I've restored to Win98 in this format several times with no problem. I'm still thinking it makes more sense to put the Win98 images on a FAT32 partition. Hi Scott. Yes I can see the point of that. vbg When I get the new external drive in two days, I'll try formatting a larger partition in FAT32, and I'll let you know. Keep me posted on your test. I just tried it with this netbook under Windows XP SP2. The only choice was NTFS and that is all for this 60GB drive. So I must have used a partition manager (some are free too). But I checked under Acronis True Image and on the top Tools - Add Drive, will partition it and format it in FAT32 too. I checked this site, and I'm wondering what they mean about: "allow the FAT32 partition to work with the P+". What is P+ ? Fortecstar Passion+ is my guess. And I guess it is an UK satellite DVR I think. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 Bill, I received the 750GB WD external drive. I used that free program, Swiss Knife", to format a 173GB partition in FAT32. Then I used WinXP - Control Panel/Computer Management to format the second partition in NTFS. Everything is working well. It looks like the 750GB drive has only 698GB of usable drive space, but I guess that's the way it is. I deleted the software that came pre-installed on the WD drive. Thanks again! Scott Thanks for the update Scott. And yes that is normal. grin -- Bill Windows XP SP2 (5.1.2600) Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Bill, I've been backing up Acronis images from Win98 and WinXP, and the newly formatted external WD drive works perfectly. Thanks again for the excellent advice! Scott |
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