Can I move a sparsebundle from external drive to bootcamp for temp backup?

i am in my windows 7 boot camp install and I am trying to move a sparsebundle /off/ a Mac OSX journaled external drive to the Boot Camp drive but I am getting an error that says:
could not find this item. this is no longer located in the G:\Data...your sparsebundle...\bands.
is it not possible to move a sparsebundle like this? I'd like to move it off the drive so I can use the external drive and I have the space on my internal drives...
thanks
background: i moved a sparesebundle to an external drive (from within Disk Utility as I recall) so that I would have a backup when I had to reformat my Time Capsule due to some issue. Now I need the external drive to run a clone to but I'd still like to hang onto this sparsebundle in case I deleted a dumptruck worth of data moving info around and playing with dropox.

hotwheels 22 wrote:
you're the man.
for future reference can i please just ask you if there are any restrictions on moving these from mac hd to mac hd in any way? I remember when I had to get it off the TC that I did this through Disk Utility for some reason.
Not that I know of. It will take quite a while, of course, especially over a network.
The complication with copying from a TC via the Finder is, you have to locate it via the Finder by clicking on the Time Capsule in a Finder Sidebar or on your desktop, then double-click the volume to be able to see the sparse bundle. Then you can drag it.
/Also/ can I please ask you if I should /see/ a Time Capsule from a boot camp partition or from a windows virtual machine or even from a laptop on the network?
As I mentioned earlier, I don't do Windoze.
I think you should be able to see the TC itself from any computer on the network, and the HD as well (unless, perhaps, it's protected by a password), but I have no idea how to do that in Windoze.
Perhaps one of our networking gurus will pop in with a better answer . . .

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