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post #1 of 10
7/31/04 at 11:42pm
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Hi,

I am trying to copy a large video file (approx. 4.10 GB) to my external 250 GB WD Dual Option HD. I have more than 220 GB free in the Hard Drive, but whenever I try and copy move this file from my laptop to the external HD, i get a "Not Enough Disk Space" message. Any ideas on what's going on? I am thinking that there is some setting I need to change where I can increase the maximum file size that Windows will let me copy, but I am not sure...Please help :S
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post #2 of 10
7/31/04 at 11:48pm
Is your external formatted as NTFS?

If not, that's probably the problem as Fat32 and otehr partition types cannot handle anything bigger than 4 GB (or smaller in some cases).
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post #3 of 10
7/31/04 at 11:48pm
Did you make sure to format the hard drive to NTFS and not FAT32? The maximum file size for fat32 is a couple gig, I'm not exactly sure of the number but it is 4gig or less than 4gig.
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post #4 of 10
8/1/04 at 2:57am
haha...same post at exactly the same time
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post #5 of 10
8/2/04 at 8:01pm
Thread Starter 
Thanks so much for your help,

I see that the HD was actually formatted as FAT32, so I guess I have to format it to NTFS now....any ideas on how to do that???


Thanks,

Dipak
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post #6 of 10
8/2/04 at 8:24pm
If you have data on the disk that you want to keep, there is a way to convert it to NTFS. If not, it might just be easier to reformat.

Either way, you can find guides on the web via Google.

I'm feeling half generous today, so here's MS's guide to conversion http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...onvertfat.mspx

Type the following (including quotation marks) convert fat32 ntfs "windows XP" into Google for some more.

I suggest you read several of the guides, cause if I recall correctly, you can screw up your disk if you don't convert it properly (don't worry, it isn't permanent, but you'll lose any data on it) and there are preparation steps you can take to avoid doing so. I didn't see this info in the MS guide.
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post #7 of 10
8/2/04 at 9:57pm
Quote:
don't worry, it isn't permanent, but you'll lose any data on it
sounds damaging to me.
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post #8 of 10
8/2/04 at 10:19pm
Well screw up your disk could imply rendering it not useable ever again.
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post #9 of 10
8/2/04 at 11:49pm
Thread Starter 
Thanks for all your help....I am backing up the HD as we speak. Out of curiosity, I am running the HD on firewire 400, and often i get a data transfer rate of about 700 mb/minute. Anyways, this only seems to be a "burst" speed. About how long does it take you guys to back up around 29 GB of data?
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post #10 of 10
8/3/04 at 12:03am
Can't help you there. I'm having issues with my firewire ports right now and am using USB 2.0 instead.
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