NTBackup Stops after backing up 4 gigs onto a 250 gig external drive.

[Anniemmmm]

Help:

I'm trying to back up my hard drive on my laptop as it has to be sent
in for service (screen prob). I have a 250 gig external hard drive that
should be formatted as a single drive (I'm borrowing it so not sure
about all of its details).

When I use NTBack up the procedure does not go thru. It stops and give
this error:

"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 FAT32, the maximum
possible
size for the backup file is limited to 4 GB.
The backup operation will stop."

Can someone assist please!?

Thanks so much,
Anniemmmm

 

[Touch Base]

| Help:
|
| I'm trying to back up my hard drive on my laptop as it has to be sent
| in for service (screen prob). I have a 250 gig external hard drive that
| should be formatted as a single drive (I'm borrowing it so not sure
| about all of its details).
|
| When I use NTBack up the procedure does not go thru. It stops and give
| this error:
|
| "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 FAT32, the maximum
| possible
| size for the backup file is limited to 4 GB.
| The backup operation will stop."
|
| Can someone assist please!?
|
| Thanks so much,
| Anniemmmm

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Your question may have been answered in your own post:

"If this disk is formatted with FAT32, the maximum possible size for the backup file is limited to 4 GB."

How do I know if my computer has been formatted using the FAT32 file system?

Double click on 'My Computer", right click on C: drive, select properties, look for
File System below the picture of the hard drive, it should tell you there whether your hard drive has been formatted (set up originally) using either the NTFS (New Technology File System) format or the FAT32 (File Allocation Table) format.

If it has been formatted using FAT32 you will need to convert your hard drive to NTFS and you won't have this limitation.

http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/fatntfs.php