Trouble backing up files

[MariaL]

I am putting copies of all my files from my internal harddrive to my
new Seagate 160GB external drive. I have copied all files, except
one. It is a MPEG file, size 6.5 GB. When I try to put a copy of it
on the external drive, I get an error message that there isn't enough
free disk space. There is 90 gb free space on the harddrive left, so
that isn't the problem. HELP????

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

I am putting copies of all my files from my internal harddrive to my
new Seagate 160GB external drive. I have copied all files, except
one. It is a MPEG file, size 6.5 GB. When I try to put a copy of it
on the external drive, I get an error message that there isn't enough
free disk space. There is 90 gb free space on the harddrive left, so
that isn't the problem. HELP????

If your external drive is formated as FAT32, the largest file it can
hold is 4 gb. Your 6.5 gb mpeg will have to go on a NTFS fromatted
drive.

Good luck,
BarryG

 

[MariaL]

If your external drive is formated as FAT32, the largest file it can
hold is 4 gb. Your 6.5 gb mpeg will have to go on a NTFS fromatted
drive.

Good luck,
BarryG

Can I format the external drive to NTFS?

 

[Rock]

Can I format the external drive to NTFS?

Yes it can be converted. Normally that conversion goes fine and the data is
retained however, as you know with computers, the unintended can happen, so
make sure the data is backed up before doing the conversion. See this link
on how to do it. In particular pay attention to the tip in there to avoid a
pitfall with cluster sizes.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm

On another note, since you are taking the excellent to backup your data to
an external hard drive, I recommend you go one step further and get a drive
imaging program, I currently use Acronis True Image Home, version 10, to
make a compressed image of the drive in your computer and save that image to
the external hard drive. That way you can quickly recover if something
happens to the drive in the computer.

ATI can make images on a drive or partition basis, and the images can be
either full, incremental or differential so subsequent images will be much
smaller and take much less time. It also does file backups and drive
cloning. Restores can be done on a file, partition or drive basis.

You can buy it direct from Acronis or better yet purchase from your favorite
discount software supplier for a better price.

Lastly, Anna has posted some excellent instructions for how to use ATI for
imaging. Here is a link to her post.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...1bf55?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#18042f40d911bf55