Booster Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 My work PC has started to go a bit wobbly. I thought I'd back it up to my 100gig portable drive. It keeps getting to 4 gigs worth and then stopping. If I format the drive as FAT not FAT 32 will this solve the problem and what are the implications of using FAT not FAT 32? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Are any single files bigger than 4Gb? That won't work. Just format it as NTFS and be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Are you able to format it to NTFS? If so that will get around the 4gb file size limit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 You need to use FAT 32 (If you can't use NTFS that is) but use a cluster size of 16kb or higher it will allow larger drives than the 4gb that it might be formatted to at the moment. FAT 16 is the old format that won't be able to format the drive fully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Oh and if you want a backup program to use try Cobian backup, nice little freeware app. I use it and don't compress the files and leave them as they are, you can get to the data quickly and easily then unless space is a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted July 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Cheers lads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyds Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Standard MS backup is limited to 4Gb on FAT, i had this prob when I backed up some vital data off a server at work, NTFSing the job lot fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nordberg Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Standard MS backup is limited to 4Gb on FAT, i had this prob when I backed up some vital data off a server at work, NTFSing the job lot fixed it. [/ QUOTE ] It's nothing to do with MS backup, it's a limitation of FAT. Go NTFS as others have said..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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