Re: do I need to format this new external drive

anthony baldwin wrote:
This may seem like a silly question, but,
I just received my shiny, spanking new Maxtor external drive from
TigerDirect, which appears to be loaded with some software for
automating backups on windopes machines.

Should I wipe and format this drive before using it for my backups?

thanks
/tony

Might be worth doing just to get a proper file system on it instead of
FAT16, which it is most likely formatted with at the moment. I have a
usb external drive which I'm using partly for backing up my personal
data, and partly for putting all my media files on. I managed to
partition it into a small ext3 partition for backups plus a larger FAT16
partition for the media files, which I want to be able to play on
windows machines.

andy.

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