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hard drives and big files

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:21 pm
by Toucan
bought an external usb hard drive yesterday.
any reason as to why it wont transfer a 5gb mkv file from my internal hd, saying there isnt enough room when it's an empty 1tb hard drive?
also, i've tried d/ling the files straight to the hard drive and they dont unpack properly, so are unwatchable
smaller files (1.5gb tv shows) seems to transfer no problem

are there size restrictions on these things?

Re: hard drives and big files

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:29 pm
by imhotepp
Toucan wrote:bought an external usb hard drive yesterday.
any reason as to why it wont transfer a 5gb mkv file from my internal hd, saying there isnt enough room when it's an empty 1tb hard drive?
also, i've tried d/ling the files straight to the hard drive and they dont unpack properly, so are unwatchable
smaller files (1.5gb tv shows) seems to transfer no problem

are there size restrictions on these things?
Is the new drive formatted as FAT32? You will be limited to 4gb with it.

This may help ya: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

Re: hard drives and big files

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:49 pm
by Toucan
got it sorted, thanks to istik

it was fat32, changed it to whatever the other one was and awaiting results....

Re: hard drives and big files

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:40 pm
by gelfling
Good luck :)

Re: hard drives and big files

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:37 am
by Toucan
it's all good!