He said his XP Pro is formatted as NTFS. That doesn't mean the external
drive is formatted the same. By default, most manufactured external drives
are formatted as fat32, if they are formatted at all. This allows
interoperability between various operating systems (a lot of people still
use Win98). Also, I still see store bought computers with XP on a fat32
partition (go figure).
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Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
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If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"William" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Richard Urban" wrote:
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>> Format your external drive with the NTFS format. You are now formatted as
>> fat32 (4 gig file size limitation).
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>> "EL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:FDD9912F-635A-409F-8A07-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > My XP Pro with win32 ntfs will not allow ASR backup of more than 4 GB.
>> > How
>> > can entire system of 20 GB be stored on external HDD?
>> > Thanks,
>> > EL
>>
>>
>>
> Hey, I think he said his hard drive file system was NTFS. But check to
> make
> sure that it is NTFS. If not, consider converting. Or else, you're stuck
> with
> the limitation of 4GB files. Backup important data files first! (That's
> okay.
> You said you wanted to backup the whole drive.)
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