nothing copies to external hard drive

[iskim86]

I'm trying to copy a DVD image that is 4 gigs big into my 200gig external hard drive which has 27 gigs of free space, but I can't!!!

it just shows me the "can't copy because not enough free space blah blah" error message with a button that takes me to disk cleanup. how is it not possible to copy a 4 gig file onto a hard drive with 27 gigs of free space? it's a maxtor onetouch (second generation) external harddrive.

the drive has been sitting there, no movements, was not traveled with in the last 6 months.

thanks for any help

 

[iskim86]

burnp

 

[Akhen]

what is the format of your hard drive?
NTFS or Fat32?

 

[iskim86]

fat32

 

[deanx0r]

max file size on a fat32 partition is 4GB

and my guess is that your dvd is slightly above that limit... 4.3GB

 

[iskim86]

Originally posted by: deanx0r
max file size on a fat32 partition is 4GB

and my guess is that your dvd is slightly above that limit... 4.3GB

are you serious.................. 🙁

argh!!!!! !😡

should I convert it to NTFS?

 

[CrispyFried]

Originally posted by: iskim86

Originally posted by: deanx0r
max file size on a fat32 partition is 4GB

and my guess is that your dvd is slightly above that limit... 4.3GB

are you serious.................. 🙁

argh!!!!! !😡

should I convert it to NTFS?

yup, deanx0r is right, the fat32 file size limitation of 4 gigs is your problem. convert to ntfs and youll be good to go. or cut the file into smaller chunks.

 

[BigLan]

Yup, fat32 sucks for big files, but ntfs isn't so good with macs/linux.

Either convert it over, or use winrar to cut it into 1gb pieces. Another option would be to extract the dvdr to a video_ts folder, which will have 1gb files in it.

 

[iskim86]

so how do I convert the drive from FAT32 to NTFS while keeping the files intact?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: iskim86
so how do I convert the drive from FAT32 to NTFS while keeping the files intact?

You don't.

 

[CrispyFried]

xp has a built in util to do it, but your safest bet is to copy everything off the external drive and reformat as ntfs, then copy everything back over.

 

[iskim86]

Originally posted by: CrispyFried
xp has a built in util to do it, but your safest bet is to copy everything off the external drive and reformat as ntfs, then copy everything back over.

all 200 gigs? :Q

my laptop drive can only hold 60 gigs 🙁