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When select the backup option “local hard drive” to backup to external hard drive, it fails in the middle of the process, why?

April 26, 2017backup external hard drive fails hard middle option process select

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When select the backup option “local hard drive” to backup to external hard drive, it fails in the middle of the process, why?

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Please check if the external hard drive is in FAT32 volume format. And also check whether there is any folder containing more than 32000 files and there is no file bigger than 4GB within your backup set. It is a FAT32 limitation, you may try to convert the FAT32 volume to NTFS.