First, when you formatted the external drive did you not have an option as
to whether to use FAT or NTFS?
Second, it really doesn't matter if the external drive is NTFS if you use a
"Copy and Paste" procedure to get files from your existing drive on to the
external drive. The software on the PC will simply call writes to the
external drive and the drive itself should take care of any "house keeping"
issues to convert said folders/files to NTFS.
Now, if your Windows 98 PC cannot recognize the external drive, you may need
to reformat the external drive as a FAT file system. Or if you could link
your old PC to your new PC and run the backup from you new PC with the old
PC being networked to the newer one, that should likewise resolve your
dilemma.
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Holland's Person, Bill
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