I use Win2K Pro SP4 and back up onto a Freecom 20Gb
external hard disk (via USB). I have tried to do the
whole PC in one go (10GB) but MSBackup appears to be
unable to handle more than 4Gb. When this much is
completed I get an error message "End of Media encountered
while backing up to non-removable media." which is
incorrect because at least 10Gb more is free on the
external disk.

Does anyone recognise this and know why it happens?

Happy New Year

Use a third party backup solution. Veritas makes excellent software that doesn't have
limitations. You might want to try Symantec Ghost and image the platform.

Dave



"Tony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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| I use Win2K Pro SP4 and back up onto a Freecom 20Gb
| external hard disk (via USB). I have tried to do the
| whole PC in one go (10GB) but MSBackup appears to be
| unable to handle more than 4Gb. When this much is
| completed I get an error message "End of Media encountered
| while backing up to non-removable media." which is
| incorrect because at least 10Gb more is free on the
| external disk.
|
| Does anyone recognise this and know why it happens?
|
| Happy New Year

"Tony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I use Win2K Pro SP4 and back up onto a Freecom 20Gb
> external hard disk (via USB). I have tried to do the
> whole PC in one go (10GB) but MSBackup appears to be
> unable to handle more than 4Gb. When this much is
> completed I get an error message "End of Media encountered
> while backing up to non-removable media." which is
> incorrect because at least 10Gb more is free on the
> external disk.
>
> Does anyone recognise this and know why it happens?
>
> Happy New Year

is the external drive formatted as fat32? i believe there is a max file
size limit of 4gb under fat32. try to format it as ntfs and see if you can
do the whole thing.

Use xcopy.exe instead of ntbackup.exe to get around
the maximum file size of 4 GBytes on a FAT32 volume.


"Tony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I use Win2K Pro SP4 and back up onto a Freecom 20Gb
> external hard disk (via USB). I have tried to do the
> whole PC in one go (10GB) but MSBackup appears to be
> unable to handle more than 4Gb. When this much is
> completed I get an error message "End of Media encountered
> while backing up to non-removable media." which is
> incorrect because at least 10Gb more is free on the
> external disk.
>
> Does anyone recognise this and know why it happens?
>
> Happy New Year