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Problem with Seagate External HDD

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BigWinston

Junior Member
Hi!

So, I've just bought the Seagate 160GB external HDD. Got it out of the box, plugged it all in, worked fine.

Now I've started to copy some files on there. Created a new directory for my DVD image ISO's for work - all around 4GB, dragged them over to the new directory and I get an error telling me there's not enough room on the HDD! I checked and there's 149GB available - the drive is empty bar one empty folder.

Copying smaller files is OK, but I don't want to archive those.

Has anyone else had this problem? Managed to fix it?

Thanks

BW
 
The drive must be formatted in NTFS to take large files. Use disk manager to confirm and go ahead and reformat the drive in NTFS. I'm betting it's using FAT32 right now, which cannot handle big files.
 
Yeah, that fixed it - thanks.

It did show it was already at NTFS, but I reformatted it as NTFS again and it works now.

 
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