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Old 05-25-2008, 01:51 PM   #1
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New EXT Drive only recognizes files smaller than 4 GB

I have a new USB EXT hard drive, Western Digital "My Book". I am trying to backup a large ,80 GB , file to this drive. I get an error message stating that I need more space. The drive has 450 GB free space. I noticed thru IMGBURN,
I 12:23:59 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started!
I 12:23:59 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)
I 12:23:59 Total Physical Memory: 1,048,048 KB - Available: 571,496 KB
W 12:23:59 Drive G:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size.
I 12:24:00 Initialising SPTI...
I 12:24:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 12:24:00 Found 1 CD-RW and 1 DVD+RW!

How can I change this to accept larger files?
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Old 05-25-2008, 01:59 PM   #2
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W 12:23:59 Drive G:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size.
FAT32 does not support files over 4GB. FAT32 is for backward compatibility, so to get the drive to recognize larger files, you'd need to convert it to NTFS.
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FAT32 does not support files over 4GB. FAT32 is for backward compatibility, so to get the drive to recognize larger files, you'd need to convert it to NTFS.
thanks for the info, works now! On to the next issue!
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Glad it worked out for you
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