External HDD Problems

Jimmy_Lemon · 18 Jan 2007 at 13:37

Hi,

I have a 320gb Seagate external HDD and it is giving me grief, you lot are a bright bunch on here so someone might know how to resolve ths problem:

It has 200gb free and I am trying to copy a 32gb file over to it. It just keeps saying that the drive is full! I am totally stumped! It should fit easily!

The drive I am copying it from (an internal HDD on a laptop) only has 22gb free, could this be the problem? does it have to do some odd duplicate of the file as it sends it accross or something?

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

rpstewart · 18 Jan 2007 at 14:05

I'm going to guess that the external drive is formatted as FAT32 in which case it has a 4Gb file limit and would return the error noted if you try to exceed that.

Jimmy_Lemon · 18 Jan 2007 at 14:14

Poop! yeah its fat32 - its all coming back to me now! Thanks for your help

Tosk · 18 Jan 2007 at 15:32

yea the drive as to be in a NTFS format for files over 4gig

rpstewart · 18 Jan 2007 at 16:03

Jimmy_Lemon said:
Poop! yeah its fat32 - its all coming back to me now! Thanks for your help

You can do a one time conversion from fat32 to ntfs using the convert.exe utility which comes with Windows