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" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 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...

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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"Peter Wills" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>> 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...

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> ----- John wrote: -----
>
>
> "Peter Wills" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:03b701c3d56e$54c6a810$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>> 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...
>
> 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 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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