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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: iamyourmom on March 02, 2010, 06:11:19 AM

Title: Problem with harddrive
Post by: iamyourmom 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???
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: iamyourmom on March 02, 2010, 06:20:57 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?
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: patio on March 02, 2010, 06:22:21 AM
Not other than using a file-splitting utility...no.
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: Allan on March 02, 2010, 06:23:45 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?
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: iamyourmom on March 02, 2010, 06:25:46 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.
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: Allan 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
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: iamyourmom on March 02, 2010, 06:34:15 AM
cheers guys. used HJsplit instead :P
Title: Re: Problem with harddrive
Post by: Allan on March 02, 2010, 06:44:30 AM
That's fine.