Re: Not able to backup more than 4 gig using XP Pro backup utility
- From: "jason.mangiafico@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jason.mangiafico@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:34:15 -0800 (PST)
quoting:
No, this has nothing to doing with backup up in particular. There is
simply a 4GB limitation on the size of a FAT32 file. Especially
"considering the size of most hard drives these days," you should be
using NTFS, rather than FAT32.
"considering the size of most hard drives these days," Is not an issue
as of yet. Having say a 500gb drive with 4kb clusters is within the
limitations of fat32. Though you wouldn't typically need a 500gb
system partition, so I would partition it so that I have a second
partition with bigger cluser size for the storage of big files.
The only good reason for using FAT32 is if you are dual-booting to
another operating system that is not NTFS-aware.
That is what I do. Also I like the simplicity of fat32, and I don't
need the extra features of ntfs.
I recommend converting to NTFS. To convert to NTFS, you use the
CONVERT command. But first readhttp://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm
because there's an issue regarding cluster size that isn't obvious.
Also note that conversion is a big step, affecting everything on your
drive. When you take such a big step, no matter how unlikely, it is
always possible that something could go wrong. For that reason, it's
prudent to make sure you have a backup of anything you can't afford to
lose before beginning.
Convert to ntfs then back up, or back up first, but you can't back up
first so probably at this point it would then be best to find a way to
back up to an external drive or something and just leave the drive
alone asis.
.
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