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iamyourmom

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    Problem with harddrive
    « on: March 02, 2010, 06:11:19 AM »
    not sure if this is a hardware problem...

    i have a seagate 320gb HDD in FAT32, and when i tried to copy a 5 GB file into the drive, it tells me there is not enough space, even though there is nothing in the drive???
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    Re: Problem with harddrive
    « Reply #1 on: March 02, 2010, 06:13:08 AM »
    Fat32 has a 4Gb file limit size. The easiest solution is to convert the drive or partition to ntfs.
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      Re: Problem with harddrive
      « Reply #2 on: March 02, 2010, 06:20:57 AM »
      Quote from: Allan on March 02, 2010, 06:13:08 AM
      Fat32 has a 4Gb file limit size. The easiest solution is to convert the drive or partition to ntfs.

      but i need to use it with Mac and PC for work. any other way to do this?
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      Re: Problem with harddrive
      « Reply #3 on: March 02, 2010, 06:22:21 AM »
      Not other than using a file-splitting utility...no.
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      Re: Problem with harddrive
      « Reply #4 on: March 02, 2010, 06:23:45 AM »
      Quote from: iamyourmom on March 02, 2010, 06:20:57 AM
      but i need to use it with Mac and PC for work. any other way to do this?
      I'm not familiar with PC/Mac compatibility, but is there some reason an NTFS file system would be a problem?
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        Re: Problem with harddrive
        « Reply #5 on: March 02, 2010, 06:25:46 AM »
        Quote from: Allan on March 02, 2010, 06:23:45 AM
        I'm not familiar with PC/Mac compatibility, but is there some reason an NTFS file system would be a problem?

        yeah. cause i need FAT32 to read/write in mac. NTFS can only read in mac.
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        Re: Problem with harddrive
        « Reply #6 on: March 02, 2010, 06:31:10 AM »
        OK. Then as patio suggested you might want to try file splitting sw such as: http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jsplit.htm
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          Re: Problem with harddrive
          « Reply #7 on: March 02, 2010, 06:34:15 AM »
          cheers guys. used HJsplit instead :P
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          Re: Problem with harddrive
          « Reply #8 on: March 02, 2010, 06:44:30 AM »
          That's fine.
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