Backing up Win2K Pro machine - HELP

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I have someone who is trying to backup their laptop C: drive to a Sony Giga Vault 40GB. When she gets to just over 4 GB, she gets a message saying that the destination media is full

Anyone know if this is a bug with Microsoft? Any solutions

Thanks for any help.
 
Sounds like the Sony drive is formatted FAT32 which I believe limits file
size to 4GB. Format it NTFS. HTH.
Louis

rob said:
I have someone who is trying to backup their laptop C: drive to a Sony
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Giga Vault 40GB. When she gets to just over 4 GB, she gets a message saying
that the destination media is full.
 
Sorry, I didn't add this in my first post. She tested copying a folder that was about 8GB large and did so no problem. Is it a case of the backup process thinking it's FAT32 and thus restricting it?
 
Is it FAT32? You say she copied a folder that was 8GB but the limit is on
"FILE" size. When you backup you are creating a single file that is too big
for FAT32. Right click on the drive and choose properties and check the file
system type. If it is FAT32, it will not work. If it is NTFS then you have a
different problem. HTH.
Louis

rob said:
Sorry, I didn't add this in my first post. She tested copying a folder
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that was about 8GB large and did so no problem. Is it a case of the backup
process thinking it's FAT32 and thus restricting it?
 
I think that's it. So I can just have her format the gigavault, but select NTFS as the File System. For the allocation units, should I go with 4096 bytes or let Windows determine

Thanks again
 
That's correct. Just let Windows decide the allocation unit size.
Louis

rob said:
I think that's it. So I can just have her format the gigavault, but
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select NTFS as the File System. For the allocation units, should I go with
4096 bytes or let Windows determine?
 
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