External Hard Drive problem

dannycivic02

dannycivic02

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Im trying to transfer a file from my laptop to my External Hard Drive (Seagate 1tb) which has over 700gb free space however im getting a message saying the file is too large for the destination file its only a 5gb file can anyone point me in the right direction? :confused:

Many thanks
 
At a guess the external drive is formatted as FAT32 which has a 4Gb maximum file size.

You can convert it to NTFS but if you do it will only be accessible by a PC which is no use if you need it to connect to an XBox, media player or other device.
 
Yes as the op stated. Back up everything on the drive, reformat it as ntfs and then stick everything back on it. The world is now your oyster!

ps all that can be done with use of your aforementioned laptop.
 
make sure that whatever you connect it to supports NTFS though before formatting it. i know things like the PS3 wont, so if you are using it on the TV as a media drive, then might hit problems.
if its used for media and data, and the tv does not support it, then partion it, so you have FAT32 for media and NTFS for large data files.
if its just for media, then might need to look at a different way of encoding the files so they are smaller.
 
paradisiac said:
make sure that whatever you connect it to supports NTFS though before formatting it. i know things like the PS3 wont, so if you are using it on the TV as a media drive, then might hit problems.
if its used for media and data, and the tv does not support it, then partion it, so you have FAT32 for media and NTFS for large data files.
if its just for media, then might need to look at a different way of encoding the files so they are smaller.
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Thats the answer I was looking for didn't know I could partition it with 2 file systems going to give that a bash as I need fat 32 for media etc thanks.
 
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