MS Backup limited to 4GB

[Guest]

Greetings

Having just added Backup to my XP Home OS on my Sony Vaio laptop, I linked
up a 60 gb external hard drive. I then selected the items I wanted to back up
to the external drive, approximately 15 GB of audio and data. I set the
Backup program in motion and on two occasions came up with the following
mesage in the Backup Utility dialog box:

"You have either run out of space, or the backup file (.bkf) is too large
for this disk.
"NOTE: if this disk is formatted with FAT 32, the maximum possible size for
the backup file is limited to 4GB. The backup operation will stop."

Suffice to say that the external drive was only one third full, and that the
size of the backup folder actually created was indeed exactly 4GB. I have a
photo folder on the external drive that is 11 GB and I cannot understand what
the problem is.

If someone has met with this glitch previously and can advise me how to
overcome it I should be most obliged.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You need to reformat your external drive to NTFS.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| Greetings
|
| Having just added Backup to my XP Home OS on my Sony Vaio laptop, I linked
| up a 60 gb external hard drive. I then selected the items I wanted to back up
| to the external drive, approximately 15 GB of audio and data. I set the
| Backup program in motion and on two occasions came up with the following
| mesage in the Backup Utility dialog box:
|
| "You have either run out of space, or the backup file (.bkf) is too large
| for this disk.
| "NOTE: if this disk is formatted with FAT 32, the maximum possible size for
| the backup file is limited to 4GB. The backup operation will stop."
|
| Suffice to say that the external drive was only one third full, and that the
| size of the backup folder actually created was indeed exactly 4GB. I have a
| photo folder on the external drive that is 11 GB and I cannot understand what
| the problem is.
|
| If someone has met with this glitch previously and can advise me how to
| overcome it I should be most obliged.

 

[Guest]

Hi Cary

Thank you for your prompt response. But you assume I would know how to
reformat to NTFS. Could you please kindly either tell me how this can be
achieved or direct me to a site that covers this?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
Then click on DISK MANAGEMENT. Right-click on your
External Drive letter and select FORMAT.

Note:

Be sure and save any important files currently stored on your
external drive to a CD or another drive as formatting will
remove all data and files from the drive you are formatting.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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:

| Hi Cary
|
| Thank you for your prompt response. But you assume I would know how to
| reformat to NTFS. Could you please kindly either tell me how this can be
| achieved or direct me to a site that covers this?
|
| "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

You can also use a backup program that allows you to split the output file
into multiple smaller chunks.

Stomp's "BackUp MyPC" version 6 will do this automatically. When the
maximum file size for the file format has been reached, the program just
starts with a second file, third file and so on. You will end up with, maybe
four, 4 gig files if you backup 16 gig of information. If you do a complete
recovery, all of the files will be utilized during the course of the
recovery.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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