Backup Wizard non Recognition of External Hard Drive

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My computer is Dell XPS 400 which uses Windows XP Professional Operating
System having a 320 GB internal hard disk. Recently a 750 GB Western Digital
My Book external hard drive with USB 2.0 interface was added to the system.
Windows Backup Wizard does not recognize this external hard disk as
legitimate back up medium even though it is based on the FAT32 format.
Microsoft documentation indicates that it should be legitimate. Simple files
have been written to and from between the internal and external hard disks.
Can someone help me with this problem, because I would like to use the Backup
Wizard as the backup protocol.
 
The Microsoft Backup program, called NtBackup.exe, has changed little since
the days of Windows NT (note its name). This program is very limited in
many ways, including where it can send the backup.

Suggestion: Forget the Microsoft program and get a modern backup program,
such as Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost. These will recognize external
media. Further, they can restore a PC, even if it can not boot into XP, by
utilizing bootable CDs.

Other backup programs, some free, can be found at:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads3.html

Note that links to Tree Image and Ghost are also listed here.
 
aivil said:
My computer is Dell XPS 400 which uses Windows XP Professional Operating
System having a 320 GB internal hard disk. Recently a 750 GB Western
Digital
My Book external hard drive with USB 2.0 interface was added to the
system.
Windows Backup Wizard does not recognize this external hard disk as
legitimate back up medium even though it is based on the FAT32 format.
Microsoft documentation indicates that it should be legitimate. Simple
files
have been written to and from between the internal and external hard
disks.
Can someone help me with this problem, because I would like to use the
Backup
Wizard as the backup protocol.
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Could it be that the backup file would exceed 4GB? FAT32 cannot create a
file larger than 4GB.

This system has a 1TB drive used for backup. But, as it is NTFS. I have no
trouble creating whatever size of backup I need.

Jim
 
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