Backup to USB Drive

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I am trying to run a backup job (through Windows XP backup utility) to a
120GB USB2.0 drive. However, when the backup file reaches 4GB the software
thinks the drive is full and terminates. Oddly, the same exact thing occurs
using Computer Associates backup software (which is why I switched to Win
Backup, thinking it was an error in CA's software), so clearly it has
something to do with how the media is queried to test for size.

Anyone have a way around this? I assume there must be a registry entry I can
modify or something!
 
Nevermind...it is because of the inherent 4GB file-size limit in FAT32; I
formatted the drive as NTFS so hopefully that will fix it.
 
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