Fat 32 HD

[GeekGirlHere]

I have a Fat32 external Western Digital 500GB hard drive. It is my backup drive. I have 130GB's to backup to the external hard drive but when I run Windows Backup Software, it only backs-up a little over 4GB.....why isn't the whole 130GB's backing up?

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

 

[atomic tofu]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/maintain/backupfiles.mspx

I think you have to edit your backup settings? And you should convert to ntfs unless you prefer fat32 for some reason ...should only take about 10 minutes or less I am thinking?

 

[TheMajor]

Nothing wrong with FAT32. NTFS is more secure and a little faster with large volumes.

 

[Nitestick]

FAT32 will not permit files to be larger than 4gb......

convert the drive to NTFS unless you are using an OS that does not support it.