From: "Robert Comer" 

>   The backup drive could be Fat32 as long as it is large enough to support
> holding your backup data.

And as long as no file is over 4GB.

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Bob Comer


"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:i4up12hqvbs33ebdn4k9pteb9bcbtuosns{at}4ax.com...
> On 18 Mar 2006 15:51:44 GMT, BEN.RITCHEY{at}harborwebs.com wrote:
>
>>What is the difference, if any, between Wins NT4 NTFS and Wins XP NTFS?
>
>  The low-level format was changed to support encrypted files and other
> minor changes.
>
>> Is there such a thing as an NT boot diskette that would allow me to run
>> GNU
>>Zip/Unzip to/from a USB-IDE drive for backups? Simple as possible 
>>desired.
>
> Bart PE http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/  is the closest thing.   For this
> case, GZIP would have to support saving all the NTFS file attributes
> including encrypted files (if any).
>
>>Also, would a backup drive HAVE to be NTFS or does NT/XP read/write Fat32?
>
>   The backup drive could be Fat32 as long as it is large enough to support
> holding your backup data.

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