backup 144gb Hard Drive to an external hard drive of 250gb (format

I started to backup my media center edition computer to a external hard drive
and the progress was stoppted after only 4GB was backed up.

Something abot formatting the external to NTFS vs FAT32 ?

How do I proceed? The external hard drive is Western Digital My Book
Essential Edition. I am running XP Media center Edition and muct run a
completete install of Media EDition 2005 on my Dell Dimension 8400.

Can anyone help?

I'd format the drive using explorer and choose NTFS as the file system.

Mike

"JECat333" <JECat333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I started to backup my media center edition computer to a external hard
>drive
> and the progress was stoppted after only 4GB was backed up.
>
> Something abot formatting the external to NTFS vs FAT32 ?
>
> How do I proceed? The external hard drive is Western Digital My Book
> Essential Edition. I am running XP Media center Edition and muct run a
> completete install of Media EDition 2005 on my Dell Dimension 8400.
>
> Can anyone help?

4Gb is the maximum partition size for a FAT partition I believe.

"Michael Brown" <mike@mabrown.net> wrote in message
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> I'd format the drive using explorer and choose NTFS as the file system.
>
> Mike
>
> "JECat333" <JECat333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0A1A53EF-5B0C-4E52-BB36-8A839958CB6B@microsoft.com...
>>I started to backup my media center edition computer to a external hard
>>drive
>> and the progress was stoppted after only 4GB was backed up.
>>
>> Something abot formatting the external to NTFS vs FAT32 ?
>>
>> How do I proceed? The external hard drive is Western Digital My Book
>> Essential Edition. I am running XP Media center Edition and muct run a
>> completete install of Media EDition 2005 on my Dell Dimension 8400.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>

No, it is the maximum file size for Fat32. Partitions can be as large as
64Gb.

I am guessing the backup program creates one large file, which means the
backup drive must be NTFS
"Andy" <andy.roden@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> 4Gb is the maximum partition size for a FAT partition I believe.
>
> "Michael Brown" <mike@mabrown.net> wrote in message
> news:CEF65565-1301-4C28-8D91-09EB39003645@microsoft.com...
>> I'd format the drive using explorer and choose NTFS as the file system.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> "JECat333" <JECat333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0A1A53EF-5B0C-4E52-BB36-8A839958CB6B@microsoft.com...
>>>I started to backup my media center edition computer to a external hard
>>>drive
>>> and the progress was stoppted after only 4GB was backed up.
>>>
>>> Something abot formatting the external to NTFS vs FAT32 ?
>>>
>>> How do I proceed? The external hard drive is Western Digital My Book
>>> Essential Edition. I am running XP Media center Edition and muct run a
>>> completete install of Media EDition 2005 on my Dell Dimension 8400.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help?
>>
>