- XP Backup
- Posted by on October 9th, 2005
XP has a BACKUP built in - in my XP Pro it is easily accessible. However,
it does not seem to be able to save a file greater than 4 GB - which happens
if I want to save all my C: hard drive.
Also, I have 2 HDs, on which I have C:, D: on the first and D: E: on the
second. I can save to E: but not to F:. Why?
Thanks for replies.
Gerry
- Posted by Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers on October 9th, 2005
Hi,
Is the destination drive using the NTFS file format or FAT32? The latter has
a file size limit of 4GB (minus a few bytes).
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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<gkmcauliffe@cox.net> wrote in message
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> XP has a BACKUP built in - in my XP Pro it is easily accessible. However,
> it does not seem to be able to save a file greater than 4 GB - which
> happens if I want to save all my C: hard drive.
>
> Also, I have 2 HDs, on which I have C:, D: on the first and D: E: on the
> second. I can save to E: but not to F:. Why?
>
> Thanks for replies.
> Gerry
>
- Posted by Bob I on October 11th, 2005
Because F: isn't a hard drive.
gkmcauliffe@cox.net wrote:
> XP has a BACKUP built in - in my XP Pro it is easily accessible. However,
> it does not seem to be able to save a file greater than 4 GB - which happens
> if I want to save all my C: hard drive.
>
> Also, I have 2 HDs, on which I have C:, D: on the first and D: E: on the
> second. I can save to E: but not to F:. Why?
>
> Thanks for replies.
> Gerry
>
>
