Re: Disk drive damage continues even in Windows 2003


"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Gary Chanson" <gchanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >>>> Either way, I wouldn't be able to make backups of some MSDN downloads.
> >>>
> >>> You download files larger the 32 GB often?
> >>
> >> In FAT32 the limit on the size of a single file is somewhat below that.
> >
> > I was able to successfully download Vista to a FAT32 volume. I have
> > files larger then 2GB on FAT32 volumes.
> > MSDN isn't that large. It still fits on 3 CDs.
>
> OK, I guess the only MSDN download that couldn't be stored on a FAT32
> partition was an MSDN Library English-language version. The CD version fits
> on 3 CDs but the DVD version doesn't. The DVD version is over 4GB, last I
> saw.
>
> (Now's not the time to mention that downloads of Debian come as 2 DVD
> images. But I only installed it under Virtual PC since I don't even have a
> spare crash box to install it from burned DVDs.)

Nope. What I see is:

MSDN Library, April 2005 Edition - DVD (English)
File Size
3542 MB


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