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**Dzomlija** · 01-01-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Larry D

Hello all, I want to back up my recovery d. I have a old hard drive i am using for backing up. It is connected with a usb to ide wire and is being used as a external drive. It has 13.9 gb free space. The d recovery is 9.89 gb. When i try to copy it to the (external) hard drive i get a message that the factory.win is too large for the destination file system. Not sure what this means or how to fix it. Thanks for any comments. Ps I know this is a hokey set up but what the heck it's free space! LOL

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Chances are high that the external drive to which you want to copy the filr is formatted with FAT32, for which the maximum filesize is 4GB. You will need to first format the external drive as NTFS, which isn't always supported by some external flash drives.

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Dzomlija Windows Vista x64 Ultimate 2,217 posts	Re: back up recovery d question Quote: Originally Posted by Larry D Hello all, I want to back up my recovery d. I have a old hard drive i am using for backing up. It is connected with a usb to ide wire and is being used as a external drive. It has 13.9 gb free space. The d recovery is 9.89 gb. When i try to copy it to the (external) hard drive i get a message that the factory.win is too large for the destination file system. Not sure what this means or how to fix it. Thanks for any comments. Ps I know this is a hokey set up but what the heck it's free space! LOL Attachment 9089 Chances are high that the external drive to which you want to copy the filr is formatted with FAT32, for which the maximum filesize is 4GB. You will need to first format the external drive as NTFS, which isn't always supported by some external flash drives.
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