Problem with WD My Book 1TB

[strife]

I think that this program may have a problem with direct-connected USB drives of ~1TB. There is some question of FAT32 drives being valid at over ~500GB in size; when gathering disk information, the "wizard" part of the program bombed out because I don't think it thought that this drive was valid. I solved the problem by repartitioning the drive into two pieces (450GB FAT32 primary, which I will use for this program, and 550GB NTFS). From that point, it would be OK.

It would be helpful if there was a more graceful error catch for this. Alternatively, it would be helpful to allow mapping out this drive during the "gathering info" phase. XP calls this drive a "disk drive"; I'd consider it an external piece of removable storage.

It looks pretty good for the money, and I'm probably going to buy it. The one thing it can't do for me, no backup program can easily do - I have a very old Thinkpad T31 to back up, it doesn't have BIOS USB boot support, so if I ever have a total drive failure, I'd have to pull the drive out and restore it outside of the laptop.