Re: [APML] OT: external HD questions

["Chris Cook" <chris@cookphoto.com>]

Thanks Gene!
All seems to be working fine.

Chris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Horr" <genehorr@houston.rr.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:04 PM
Subject: RE: [APML] OT: external HD questions


> No partitioning necessary and no problem with FAT32.  It should
> just plug in and work.
>
> Gene Horr
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> > [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Chris Cook
> > Sent: 09/14/2005 8:53 PM
> > To: astro-photo@seds.org
> > Subject: [APML] OT: external HD questions
> >
> >
> > I have a question for you IT pros out there. :-)  I picked up a
> > USB external
> > HD so I could back up my images.  I'm not going to be running a dual
boot
> > system nor am I going to be running any programs etc off it... just
plain
> > storage of files.  I have a few questions with this in mind:
> >
> > 1.)  Does this drive need to be partitioned? I have a limited knowledge
of
> > HD's but I did hear that you can have a HD with no partitions?
> >
> > 2.)  The drive was formatted at the factory as FAT32 yet my main C:\
drive
> > is NTFS.  With Win XP can I have the external drive be FAT32 without
> > problems or does it have to be NTFS like the master C:\ drive?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > Chris
> >
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> >
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