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FAT32 Systems and 2GB File Size Limit

  • You are not allowed to back up 4GB or more of data to a FAT32 File System. You may either:
  • Split the data at 2GB from Where to Backup Options
  • Convert your Drive System from FAT32 to NTFS

For more info: 

SYMPTOMS:

You get this when backing u data that exceed 4GB to a FAT32 System. Fat 32 has in inherent limit to the maximum size of any file you load to a disk which is 4 GB.

 

 

FAT12

FAT16

FAT32

 

Limits

Max File Size

32 MB

2GB

4GB

Max # of Files

4,077

65,517

268,435,437

Max Filename Size

8.3 or 255 characters when using LFNs

Max Volume Size

32MB

2GB
4GB with some implementations

2TB

RESOLUTIONS:

There are two ways to go around this:

  • You can split the data so that the files do not exceed 4GB.

Please go to Where to Backup->Enable Multi-Drive Spanning->Use Fixed Split Size->2GB

  • Convert the System Format from FAT32 to NTFS:

Standard Windows utility that is called CONVERT serves this purpose
Just go to the Start->Run->Cmd (Command Prompt) and execute the command:

            C:\> CONVERT  C:  /fs:ntfs
Where C: is a name of the drive you want to convert. 
After machine re-boot conversion process will start and you'll have your FAT32 converted to NTFS without data loss. 

 

To check Drive File System:

  • My Computer->Highlight the drive->Left hand pane->File System

 

 

  • My Computer->Highlight the drive->Properties->File System
   
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