Firewire hard disk won't accept long videos

Klavisha wrote on 8/19/2002, 9:31 PM

I have just installed a new Western Digital 120GB external firewire hard drive and am moving my video files onto it. However, two large files, one 4.5GB and the other over 8GB, won't copy - I get an error message that there is insufficient disk space. I've only filled about 11GB on the firewire HD so far. I noticed after installation that this drive is formatted as FAT32. Is that the problem? Have I run into the 4GB limitation? When I installed the firewire HD I was not asked how I wanted to format it, it did it automatically. Can the HD be reformatted as NTFS? If it can, how?

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IanG wrote on 8/20/2002, 3:37 AM

Has the disk been partitioned correctly? You may just have an 11GB partition.

Cheers

Ian G.

Chienworks wrote on 8/20/2002, 6:55 AM

If the drive is indeed FAT32 then you won't be able to store files larger than 4GB on it. There should be a utility included with Windows that converts a drive to NTFS. I'm not an XP user so i wouldn't know where to find it, but under Win98 there is Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Drive Converter. Try looking there.

Klavisha wrote on 8/21/2002, 8:36 PM

Thanks, Chienworks, that was indeed the problem. I reformatted the drive to NTFS, and the problem is solved.