From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 06/05/2013 08:51 AM, Tim W wrote:   
   > I used a free 'easeus' backup frogram for years to make data and system   
   > backups to an external hard drive I bought for the purpose. Last week I   
   > discovered I had inadvertently deleted some files so I went to try to   
   > recover them from my extensive backups. Easeus would not open even one   
   > of the backup files it had made. It seems I was wasting my time - and   
   > those backups were really slow too.   
   >   
   > I turned to MS Backup in System tools and it won't write a file big   
   > enough to be useful - is it a 4Gb limit? I could backup onto 20 DVDRs   
   > with that if I wanted to but I don't. I want a nice simple way of   
   > backing up all my data before the Hard drive fails on the old machine   
   > and if it helps me recover from system failure then that's good too but   
   > the data is really important. If I have to set it running and go to bed   
   > that is fine, as long as it actually works.   
   >   
   > At the moment I have no backup of anything. I don't want to spend the   
   > time going through the whole drive copying individual folders all day.   
   > How do I back up my data from XP? How can it be so difficult?   
   >   
   > Tim W   
      
      
      
      
   Is your file system Fat32?   
   It has a 4gig file size limit   
      
      
      
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