Re: You give MVPs a bad name

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From: Steve N. (me_at_here.now)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:41:04 GMT

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:

> Because in an earlier post, in a different newsgroup,
> the same OP asked:
>
> "I'm trying to send a 20GB win media file to another PC running ME".
>
> Windows ME cannot run on a NTFS file system.
>

Incorrect assumption Carey. He may be the same poster as in the other NG
but it's not the same issue as evidenced in his reply to me:

> GRL wrote:
>> Thank you Steve. My question is related to the use of an external IOMEGA
>> drive (80 GB) FAT32 partitioned. I use this drive to store files -and I'd
>> like to write files bigger than 4 GB on it- and to backup my system
>> (WinXPSP1 NTFS) HD partition with Norton Ghost. I knew the limit of FAT32
>> and the possibility to convert it in a NTFS fs, but I don't want to do it
>> because in that case Norton Ghost is unable to run (to write the backup on
>> that drive). I hoped to find some way to bypass this limit. That's all.
>> Giovanni
>>

Steve

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