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    Kind of a dumb question

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by davidt1, May 23, 2008.

  1. davidt1

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    My external hard drive is FAT32 (LBA) and my laptop hard drive is NTFS. I need to create an image of the laptop hard drive on the external drive. Does the external drive have to be formatted to NTFS for me to do this? Should I change to the external hard drive to NTFS anyways regardless? Thanks.
     
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    What program are you gonna use to create the disk image?
     
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    yeah...i'd think you'd need to format the external drive to NTFS...here is an example of an article explaining the limits of fat32 file system

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    http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/38803/understanding-file-size-limits-on-ntfs-and-fat.html
    edit:...btw...there is no such thing as a dumb ?...only dumb answers...asking questions is the only way our human brain learns new things...

    regards

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    I do not direct this at anyone in this thread, but every time the "stupid questions" concept comes up I can't help but think of this:

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    http://despair.com/cluelessness.html

    ;) It always makes me giggle at least
     
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    I am using Apricorn EZ Gig II. I have to save the data first if I format the external drive to NTFS, right? Can I format in Vista? Thanks again.
     
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