Buffalo DriveStation USB/LAN

[Cyphereza]

   

Hi,

 

I recently gotten myself a 1TB Buffalo DriveStation USB/LAN and I noticed that it is preformatted in FAT32.

 

What I need:

I need to backup files which are over 4GB. As far as I know, FAT32 has limitation which doesn't allow a file to be more than 4GB. And if I format it to NTFS, I will lose the LAN capability.

 

What I've done:

I tried backing it up using USB and Windows prompted me error, indicating the file is too large. So, I changed to ethernet connection and successfully backed up files which are over 4GB (it was very slow because of ethernet 100Mbps compared to USB 480Mbps).

And when I changed to USB, I can see the files but it has been split into several files (with a maximum of 4GB per file) and it was placed in a folder named with the name of the file. Let's say if my 5GB file is named test.bin, the folder name will be C:\test.bin>

 

My Questions:

1. Is there a utility tool by Buffalo or 3rd party which can view the file as a whole and not splitted files + directory?

2. Who/What splitted the file? What utility did Buffalo used to split it when copying thru LAN? I assume that something in the hard disk's operating system splitted the file.

3. Is there a tool to join/split (if I were to backup using USB connection) the file?

 

Thank you in advance! ;)

[Dustrega]

In regards to your questions:

 

1. There is not a utility that is provided by Buffalo which can reunite a split file as this exceeds the file system limitation that you specified. Conversely, we cannot provide links to 3rd party utilities that do such per our forum guidelines.
2. The DriveStation kernel is most likely what separated the file into parts once again due to the file system limitations.
3. Generally, the answer to this question is the same as number 1. I'm sorry but this device was meant to only backup important documents/music/pictures.

If I may pose the question, are you backing up an image of your computer/file structure to this device?