Can't transfer files to a MyBook drive....

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This makes no sense. I am trying to copy 25 gigs of video files to a
new MyBook USB drive. there is 370 gb left on the drive (its a 500
gb drive). Yet Windows XP says that there is not enough free space
left on the drive! So I tried transferring a much smaller amount of
files, and they were moved to the MyBook, no problem. What could be
the cause? I have another older MyBook drive, and it is not having
this problem.
 
This makes no sense. I am trying to copy 25 gigs of video files to a
new MyBook USB drive. there is 370 gb left on the drive (its a 500
gb drive). Yet Windows XP says that there is not enough free space
left on the drive! So I tried transferring a much smaller amount of
files, and they were moved to the MyBook, no problem. What could be
the cause? I have another older MyBook drive, and it is not having
this problem.
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How is it formatted? FAT32 can only handle files <4GB in size so you
might need to split or archive large files into smaller chunks.
 
The MyBook drives came formatted FAT 32...and I actually have same
problem with both of the MyBooks. Yea, some of my video files are
probably over 4 GB! My Hard drives in the PC are NTFS. So I guess I
am going to have to use about a hundred DVDs to get the files off of
these two drives and re-format to NTFS. Or get another internal NTFS
drive and move everything off the MyBooks to the new NTFS drive.
Sheesh...I didn't realize that leaving the MyBooks FAT 32 ws going to
be a problem.
 
You don't have to format the MyBook as NTFS, just convert it...
Open a command prompt and "convert x: /fs:ntfs" (without quotes), where x:
is the letter of your MyBook

Usually a straightforward operation..


The MyBook drives came formatted FAT 32...and I actually have same
problem with both of the MyBooks. Yea, some of my video files are
probably over 4 GB! My Hard drives in the PC are NTFS. So I guess I
am going to have to use about a hundred DVDs to get the files off of
these two drives and re-format to NTFS. Or get another internal NTFS
drive and move everything off the MyBooks to the new NTFS drive.
Sheesh...I didn't realize that leaving the MyBooks FAT 32 ws going to
be a problem.
Click to expand...

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