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10772	2001-04-02 21:50:00	I have two PC's both with caddies for backup HDD. PC #1 is W2K, Fat 32. PC #2 is Win 95, Fat 16. Portable backup drive is 15GB, Fat 32. The W2K system backs up okay. But when I put the Portable HDD into PC #2 it configures on boot as Prinmary Slave okay but can not read the files in Explorer. Is this because its formated as a Fat 32 which can not be read with Win 95? Is there a solution? Would such a solution be to format the Portable HDD as Fat 16? Would I loose performance? Could I partition the Portable HDD & have one Fat 16 & one Fat 32? Hopefully someone can help Thanks	Guest (0)
10773	2001-04-02 22:42:00	Sergio, Which version of Win95 do you use? FAT32 support was introduced in Win95 OSR2, but if you have the first generation of Win95, it won't recognise FAT32. A FAT16 drive is limited to 2GB partitions, which might not suit your back up strategy. Maybe upgrade your Win95 installation instead? -- Juha	Guest (0)
10774	2001-04-02 22:44:00	Hi Sergio, I think you've got it. My money is on it being the version of W95. From my rusty memory banks fat 32 was only supported in version 95b Fat 16 would be a dog to use on a drive that size. Have you considered getting a device driver or util to allow 9x to read and write NTFS? -then you could use the best format of them all.	Guest (0)
10775	2001-04-03 02:12:00	Anon, you mention a utility that reads NTFS? What would this be? Its actually Fat 32 on the portable HDD. Would this utility also overcome the 2 GB limit mentioned by Juha in the previous post. Sergio	Guest (0)
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