Has anyone partitioned this drive into FAT and NTFS drives to backup Win98, Win XP and Win 7 OS'. If so, how did you do it and how did it work out?
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Yes, hello, This Drive Works With NTFS and FAT, But FAT, in all Drives, can't save files bigger then 5GB or So. Even So, Everyhting is mostly NTFS now, so just use that. Now, When I Backup, I Use TrueCrypt to secure my backups, because i dont "trust" Windows Backup. But There Should Be now Problem. I'm Pretty Sure That when I Got the drive, It was allready formatted to NTFS with 931GB of Space. Just Configure You Settings in windows backup, and direct it to the PHD (Portbale Hard Drive) There should be no problems at all.
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Everyone is wrong to a degree. OS X can READ NTFS, it can't write to it, at least not natively. FAT32 is not really suitable for backups, so I wouldn't do that. Your two options are to either partition off the drive to have an NTFS partition and an HFS+ partition (Windows and Mac respectively), or you could make it NTFS and then download MacFUSE and NTFS-3G (google it) which will give the Mac the ability to write to windows drives (Abiet, very very slowly).
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I don't see why it wouldn't be. BUT I would suggest a 2tb WD Black instead. Windows defaults to an MBR storage format which I KY supports up to 2.2tb. You can't even partition the other 800gb into another drive. You can change the format to GPT which would allow you to use all 3tb, but it's a pain in the butt and if this will be your only storage drive I would steer clear of doing that. Quick summary: A WD Black should work no problem, but I'd personally go with a 2tb version. Hope this helps!
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I am unfamiliar with NTFS. What would an example of that be? I'd be happy to help with more information.
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I'm using it with Win 8.1 and no problem making backup files. Have not had to recover.
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My box is a dual boot -- Win 98 and Win XP. For compatibility reasons, all drives are FAT 32 and I can access the FAT 32 data.
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Hello Terrence, I have not done any partitioning, but from what I've read, all hard drives whether internal or external can be partitioned. I am not a techie so I get most of my information online (the rest from computer technicians). Here is one site I've checked out...http://techchannel.radioshack.com/partition-external-hard-drive-1628.html. Hopes this helps. Cheers!
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I bought one and I use it. Windows 7 Backup doesn't work with it, so I use a 3rd party backup. It has a USB 3 interface, but I have only USB 2. The disk works fine.
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This is not a NAS it is hardware RAID it's just like a RAID controller in a server you can partition and format the RAID volume in any way supported by the OS. I've even used these with Mac OS X and Linux and had no problems with MBR or GPT partition tables, complicated partition schemes, HFS+, LVM, BTRFS, XFS etc. With Windows 7 or newer it registers as an internal disk instead of a removable drive so NTFS works but you will have to jump through some hoops to get FAT32 just like you would with a regular disk ExFAT may be easier. FAT32 has some applications but is insecure that's why MS made it difficult to access in newer OS.
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I don't know absolutely about the max storage...I only have 180GB but I would think 1TB would be ok. However, it is definitely Win7. it becomes a USB drive, so most OS should be fine.
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The Windows8_OS drive, or C:\ has 957,248,172,032 bytes or 891 GB and LENOVO, Local Disk or D:\ has 26,843,541,504 bytes or 24.9 giggle bites, so that's 915.9 GB total! And you can make more partitions. ... Is that what you meant?
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Ok thanks for the mesg. I don't think I will change the partition. It seems partitioning the drive leads into some errors, esp after storing some files.
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You can simply put a FAT32 partition on your drive and do it that way. You can do that in windows without downloading anything.
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I usually back up full os, but i'm almost positive you can back up individual files. My only gripe with this software is I already owned an older copy and had to purchase a new copy for windows 7!
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yes...ofcourse I did... format FAT32 to NTFS...PERFECT...LIKE THIS...I USE ...
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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Almost all hard drives are OS agnostic, meaning they can be formatted and schemed to the appropriate OS. The website says its preformatted to NTFS. I've formatted it in several formats (such as HFS/+, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2/3, as well as in both the GUID and the MBR schemes) and they've all operated correctly.As far as booting win8 off it, I have no idea. I use it as a backup/recovery for my mac, and its never failed me yet.