[Discussion] HPFS & WinXP

[Carl Gehr]

Brian,
Try a Western Digital Passport USB drive.  They come in sizes ranging
from 120GB to at least 250GB, and I've heard there is one still larger
on the way.

The only caveat:  If you are using eCS 2.0 RC2, FAT32 will not work
with the ACPI as distributed on the CD.  I had two TPad T60s, identical
in every way except the ACPI for one was dated 24-Aug-2007 [the RC2 CD
level] and the other was ACPI V3.03 [dated 02-Oct-2007].  The earlier
system did not recognize the WD drive, the latter one did.

Carl

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:58:29 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

>Why not create a FAT volume on the USB drive and zip to it?
>
>Brian Grawburg wrote:
>> I have a 60 GB USB hard drive that has a couple of HPFS partitions and enough free space to make a FAT32 partition.  This is my only data backup and I worry tht should my Thinkpad "go south" I will have no way to copy my data to another computer which will only be available as a Windows machine.  Is the only solution to create the FAT32 and keep duel copies of everything? Will I be able to read/write to the FAT32  (eCS 1.2R)?