Backup to External Drive

[Guest]

Hi

I have a purchased a external drive with a 300GB capacity.

I wish to create a backup of all my c: drive approx 14GB of data effectively
all the data incl system data. Microsoft backup gives me an error meesage
stating i have run out of disc space or the backup file is too large. The
error message continues to advise that if this disc is formatted with "FAT32"
the max possible size for the backup file is 4GB.

Your comments would be appreciated?

Thanks

PR

 

[JS]

Fat32 is limited to about 4GB file size. If the drive is new and there is no
data of value re-format to NTFS.
Also you should consider using an image backup tool such as Ghost or True
Image.

Norton Ghost
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10

True Image (has a 15 day trial version also)
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

JS

 

[Kerry Brown]

Hi

I have a purchased a external drive with a 300GB capacity.

I wish to create a backup of all my c: drive approx 14GB of data
effectively all the data incl system data. Microsoft backup gives me
an error meesage stating i have run out of disc space or the backup
file is too large. The error message continues to advise that if this
disc is formatted with "FAT32" the max possible size for the backup
file is 4GB.

Your comments would be appreciated?

Thanks

PR

Some backup programs will split the backup into 4 GB chunks. This would
require using a different program. A better idea is to reformat the drive
with the NTFS file system.