Quote: Originally Posted by
coolnewyorker 
@Dzom...what if he just gets a much bigger ext. HDD, does he still need to re-format? Or reformatting automatically makes it bigger already for successful backup.
Which is effectively easier to do?
You're not reading all the posts, are you, neither do you much understand the basics of HDDs:
- A new hard hard disk must always be formatted, regardless.
- Formatting does not automatically make it bigger. The only thing that can do that is compression or partitioning, and then you're also limited only to the maximum physical capacity of the drive.
- Regardless of the capacity or amount of freespace of the drive, if it is formatted as FAT32, Larry would still not be able copy a file larger than 4GB - that is the maximum filesize limit imposed on the FAT32 structures.