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Re: Formatting a partition for Windows XP



On 2004-05-05, Tom Kuiper penned:
> Greetings everyone.
>
> I would like to be able to back up my daughter's Window XP PE laptop
> to a secondary drive on my Linux (only) system.
>
> Question 1:  Should I make an NTFS partition or something else?

I assume you mean on your linux system.  Linux won't reliably write to
NTFS -- don't try to do so.

> Question 2:  How can I format a filesystem that is 30 GB in size?

Depends on the filesystem ...

-- 
monique



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