Re: Hard drive format compatibility - what am I missing?
From: Brian Meadows (brian_at_meadows.pair.com)
Date: 10/28/04
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:22:37 -0400
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:46:33 -0400, Trent© <trentsauder@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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?
>
XCOPY ;-)
>>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.
>
That was the last option I had to try, didn't get chance to try that yesterday,
I was working on the basis of let the older OS have first attempt, which seems
logically to be the correct way around.
>> 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.
>
Unfortunately he doesn't have Norton - that might be an option if I can't solve
it any other way.
>Good luck...let us know how you make out.
>
If I solve it, I'll post the answer.
Brian.
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