Subj : Bluetooth To Ethernet To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Apr 08 2026 07:27:00 Hi Ky! > EV> A 2TB HDD is the largest my XP box can write to. > Yes, 'natively'; can use larger capacities but require a few > tricks, which might not be such a good idea for use with a backup. KM> 2TB partition limit, not drive limit. KM> However a lot of older hardware barfs on > 2TB. Tho I can tell KM> you a 2008 quad-core had no such problems. Right. I think some of the confusion is "drive" can mean both the physical drive (so a "2TB drive") as well as a partition on a drive ("my 'drive e' is 2TB on my 6TB drive -- which is driving me crazy! "). As for the barfing, some may be due to the way the data is written in the BIOS. > Or whatever the Windows criteria is. Just checked and doesn't appear > there is an 'archieve' switch (the -a). KM> Yes there is, dir /a shows that, and XCOPY knows about it. It is KM> quite an old function, as XCOPY goes back to ... DOS 5, I think? KM> 1990s, anyway., OK. The help screen for 'copy' didn't show anything for setting the archive switch; did for 'xcopy'. KM> There is also a last accessed flag, tho, plus the date created KM> and date modified flags. Must be in extended help. ...I've forgotten so much on Windows since switching! > Oh: the reasoning behind use of the full pathname was in case the > computer got confused because there wasn't something to do in a previous > step it would know exactly where you wanted the file. KM> And use XCOPY if you want to take the entire directory structure, KM> or rely on the ARCHIVE bit. Yes: XCOPY is a lot more robust that COPY but definitely overkill for simple copying. ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... The patron saint of copying people on e-mail is St. Francis of a CC. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .