External HDD is FAT32

Dreadi · 11 Feb 2008 at 02:12

Hi guys.
I just tried to transfer over a 5gb film to my External HDD (Freecom hard drive classic 500gb) and it failed says it cant transfer over more then 4gb files. This seems pretty odd to me that its FAT32.
Question is, would i have any trouble converting it to NTFS or will a reformat be fine? I can't see any reason why they use FAT32, i bought the drive new a few weeks back

Monkeynut · 11 Feb 2008 at 02:15

They use FAT32 because not everyone lives in the world of XP and Vista. Some of us use Linux, Macs or god forbid, Windows 98/ME.

There shouldn't be any complications in converting it, it should be just a standard partition.

Dreadi · 11 Feb 2008 at 03:12

oh yeah, didn't think of that

Cheers for that

MrFunex · 11 Feb 2008 at 06:06

Just be aware that it's extremely difficult to convert it back without formatting if you need it back in FAT32 for any reason!