How to transfer windows 7 back up to hard drive

Ok so I have windows 7 insalled using bootcamp and i only set the partition to 100 Gb to play games on (MacbookPro late 2013 Nvidia 2 gb) so i decided that wasnt enough and that i will create a new partition that is 250gb. I then backed up all my files to a 500 gb harddrive. I then copied the back up to OSX mavericks. Then i formatted the harddrive to install windows 7 on again (this time 250Gb) and as i switch back to OSX and try to copy the back up from my internal ssd to my hard drive it says the file is too large to put on disk (When i already formatted it and the back up is 50 Gb) so is there a way to transfer the back up to on my Mac to the hard drive?
Cheers.

Try here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp?view=discussi ons
But you don't usually have good luck at all trying to use Windows on new hardware.
Do a clean install, time to start over.
And if you did you would use Windows 7 DVD anyway to restore system restore image that you made ahead of time - hopefully, the best way to get your settings though is with Windows Easy Transfer.
Apple has Migration Assistant for Windows - take a look at that,, too.

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