Backup to external hard drive

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I just got a Seagate 160 GB External USB hard drive. It is formated FAT32.
Can I use the windows XP utility to backup to it? My data backup would be
about 8 GB so I would need to have the backup in several files due to the
FAT32 file size limit.

Thanks
 
Use Disk Management to reformat the USB drive to NTFS since
one cannot create a file larger than 4 GB on a FAT32 partition.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/en-us

Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/en-us

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| I just got a Seagate 160 GB External USB hard drive. It is formated FAT32.
| Can I use the windows XP utility to backup to it? My data backup would be
| about 8 GB so I would need to have the backup in several files due to the
| FAT32 file size limit.
|
| Thanks
 
Suggest you reformat the drive NTFS - then you can have 1 file per backup,
and know the backup is on a more robust file system, able to better
withstand a power failure with corrupting the file, that is unless it is
being written to.
 
I just bought the exact same drive for My system...but the disk manager
wouldn't
work at all in the MMC aplet. Strangely enough, Diskpart worked perfectly
from the
cmd window {aren't these two the same program in different interfaces??}.
Anyway, I deleted the single "whole-drive" FAT32 Partition and created two
primary partitions - one FAT32(20gb), one NTFS with an Extended Partition
encompassing the remainder of the drive. That allowed me to create as many
Logical Drives as I wanted for whatever purpose I might need. Can you imagine
how long it would take to defrag a 160gb drive all at once?? I suggest you
break
it up into manageable parts for that reason alone.
Just My 2 cents.

MsLLL
 
Thanks,

I partition the drive 10 GB for FAT32 for my wife's old machine so we can
backup her documents and then converted the rest to NTFS.

Thanks for all your help.
 
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