Vista Back Up to External USB HDD

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Just got a WD Passport for backups and Vista refuses it. Seems the drive is
formatted for fat32 not NTFS. If I reformat the drive to NTFS will Vista
Back Up accept it ?
 
Wonderman said:
Just got a WD Passport for backups and Vista refuses it. Seems the drive is
formatted for fat32 not NTFS. If I reformat the drive to NTFS will Vista
Back Up accept it ?
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Hi Wonderman
I bought a new WD usb drive about a year ago i had to format it to NTFS from
Fat 32 for Vista Ultimate 32\64 bit Complete PC backup to use it and it
works just fine !
Good Luck
 
thanks

jerryw4386 said:
Hi Wonderman
I bought a new WD usb drive about a year ago i had to format it to NTFS
from
Fat 32 for Vista Ultimate 32\64 bit Complete PC backup to use it and it
works just fine !
Good Luck
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