Backups and connections.

["<p>sychotic <c>hicken" <"\"Bill Jillians\""@mysteryisp.com>]

Hello again.

After the mess of trying to upgrade to SP3 and my computer being 
unusable as a result I have now reinstalled SP2 although the set up is 
not as reliable as it used to be.

To prevent further mishaps I have purchased Acronis True Image 9.0 and 
made a back up of all my files.  This backup is 14 Gb in size.

I have a space 80Gb hard disk that I wanted to write this backup to as a 
means of keeping my files safe.  It is formatted with Fat32.  Whenever I 
tried to write the image file onto the scratch hd I got the message 
"insufficient space".  This in spite of there being 70Gb free on the 
scratch drive.

Can I assume that FAT32 has a file limit size lower than 14Gb which will 
not allow me to save my back up data?

Also ... when I re-installed SP2 I found a lot of the services that used 
to start automatically now had to be started manually.  AVG email 
scanner, DHCP and Print Spooler to name a couple.  I am having to 
connect to the Internet via dial-up at the moment.  When I connect the 
computer does not acknowledge an Internet connection and it is difficult 
for programs to access the Internet although they will do it with a bit 
of persistence.

I tried swapping modems but the problem persists so it looks like 
something in the OS is causing it.

My assumption here is that the dial up connection uses a service to 
register the connection to the computer and this has not been started. 
Can anyone tell me which services a dial-up connection will use to 
register an open Internet connection to the computer so I can turn it on 
and eliminate this problem?

Many thanks
Bill
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<p>sychotic <c>hicken