Re: backup > 4GB

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"Andre" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think you were dead-on Ken. Windows Explorer told me the drive was NTFS.
But when I went into Disk Management, it showed it as FAT32. I reformatted
it as NTFS and was able to backup a 26GB file. Thanks for your help.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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