I am currently using the seagate 300gb usb/firewire external hard drive with my dell dimension 8100. I will be buying another desktop and a laptop, the dimension is using the FAT32 system and the new desktop and laptop are using the NTFS files system. Will it be possible back up my files from all computers to the external hard drive, or do I need to get different external hard drives for the new computers. All the computers will also run on a wireless network. Are all the files I'm currently running the dimension useless once I start using my new computers?
Thanks.
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No you can move files from your PC to the External drive with little or no issues. The way the drive is formatted should'nt be an issue. The one external drive will be fine. I would make a Different Folder for each PC. Then copy and paste your data over. Goodluck
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Your new computer and laptop should have no problem reading from a FAT32 file system.
Generally speaking, if your operating systems supports NTFS, it can also read all of the older formats too, so you're good to go if your external HD is formatted with FAT32.
Edited to add the following:
You just need to be sure that each file that you try to copy to your FAT32 Formatted external HD is not bigger than 4GB.
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