4 gig limit

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Peter Wills

I want to use windows 2000 backup to back my 20 gigs of
data onto my 120 gig western digital drive.
It bombs at 4 gigs.

Any way to get around this with automatic backups?

If not, what the hell is the point of backups - they're
impossible to do regularly...
 
Peter Wills said:
I want to use windows 2000 backup to back my 20 gigs of
data onto my 120 gig western digital drive.
It bombs at 4 gigs.

Any way to get around this with automatic backups?

If not, what the hell is the point of backups - they're
impossible to do regularly...
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Convert the file system on the 120 GB drive to NTFS.
4 GB is the max file size on a FAT32 partition.
 
FAT32 support 32GB. 4GB is limited of FAT16.

----- John wrote: -----


Peter Wills said:
data onto my 120 gig western digital drive.
It bombs at 4 gigs.
impossible to do regularly...
Click to expand...

Convert the file system on the 120 GB drive to NTFS.
4 GB is the max file size on a FAT32 partition.
 
re formatted to straighten our the top/bottom posting mess

Alexander Brown said:
----- John wrote: -----




Convert the file system on the 120 GB drive to NTFS.
4 GB is the max file size on a FAT32 partition.

FAT32 support 32GB. 4GB is limited of FAT16.
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John correctly stated the FAT32 ***FILESIZE*** is limited to 4 GB. FAT32
will support partitions far larger than 32 GB, but it only supports files of
4 GB or less.

Phil
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