# of Files in Backup on Maxstor One Touch III

[Duinen]

Just bought a One Touch external drive (200GB) for backup.
Since I'm working on making this a Dual Boot system, I first
repartitioned the One Touch drive to 80GB
NTFS and the rest unassigned. That seems to have worked fine (Windows
XP Disk Manager)

When I run the One Touch's backup procedure (now) I select the C:
drive and presumably all files on that drive.
One Touch reports backing up 20,366 files and 6,070 MB. The problem
is this about half the files that
the DIR command lists: 41,766 and 12,630 MB.
The second odd thing is that the defragger and the partitioning
software both report about 26 GB used on the C: drive and 13 GB free.
(and chkdsk does not appear to report any problems.)

What am I missing - other than half the files?

Thanks
Frans

 

[DL]

Well youre not going to be able to use the external to boot from.
Copying files / drive in such a way will not in any case give a dual boot
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