Re: Hard drive format compatibility - what am I missing?
From: Trent© (trentsauder_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/28/04
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:46:33 -0400
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:31:13 -0400, Brian Meadows
<brian@meadows.pair.com> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to help out someone with setting up a backup procedure.
>
>There are two PCs to be backed up, a laptop running Windows Me (it's not capable
>of running 2000 or XP) and a desktop running Windows XP SP2.
>
>The backup device is an 80 GB external USB drive, and the aim is to get both
>backups on to the one external drive.
>
>I was under the impression that formatting the whole drive as one humongous
>FAT32 partition would work, that Windows XP would read and write either NTFS or
>FAT32. Seems it isn't that simple. :-(
>
>I created a primary partition on the external drive using the laptop (Win Me),
>let it take the whole 80 GB, formatted it and backed up the laptop. Everything
>OK so far.
What program did you use to do the backup?
>I then switched the external drive to the XP desktop, and found I couldn't see
>the drive. Fired up the disk administrator, and Windows XP thought the drive was
>all unallocated space.
>
>I then tried creating a smaller FAT32 partition, 20 GB to be exact, formatted
>that on the laptop and backed it up again without a problem. Switched the
>external drive to the XP machine, expecting to be able to create another
>partition to hold the XP backup. Nope. I looked at the drive in the disk
>administrator, once again it saw the whole 80GB as unallocated space.
>
>Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
Not really! lol
Try formatting with the desktop machine first...then see how the
laptop handles it. Actually, try creating 2 partitions with the
desktop machine.
> I was under the impression that XP
>could handle both NTFS and FAT32 partitions. Is there some kind of size limit
>for the FAT32 partition? Does it all need to be formatted on the XP box?
But here's what I'd do...
If yer just gonna use the drive for backups, boot into the floppy of
the program you want to use. For instance, you could boot into a
Ghost floppy...and then clone the partition on the desktop machine to
the first partition on the backup drive...then clone the laptop to the
second partition on the backup drive.
Good luck...let us know how you make out.
Have a nice one...
Trent
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