![]() Never ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly". Several back up copies so if one copy fails, you can go to the next. If the data is precious or valuable, then you will want Heck even DVDs and CDs fade with time and should be checked every 6 months are copied to a new disk every two years. Please people, stop expecting your hard drives to live for ever or never corrupt. Brand spanking new drives have failed within a week. Yes it's a pain to back up and it's time consuming to put the next dvd in, find the next 4gb worth of files and burn them, but it is either that or risk losing the data altogether. I am not saying you can back up to a single DVD - I am saying by a tub of them - after all on a fat32 drive none of the files are over 2gb. ![]() The work around was to plug the drive into XP and then access the xp machine from vista using the (wireless) network and copying the files across. then XP had fits with the drive and the XP drive had to be converted to NTFS. One fix was to backup the data on the drive and then format to NTFS with vista and then put the data back. for some reason vista get's its knickers in a twist over reading fat32 on a usb connection.
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