[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues
Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any ideas? I am running Windows media center 2005, and it's set up with a usb 2.0 cable Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues
Your drive in question is probably formatted in the FAT32 file system. There is a 4GB filesize limitation in FAT32. If thats a serious problem for you, and you don't expect to be using this external drive on a Mac or anything you could always reformat to NTFS which does not have such a limit. (well it technically does have a limit but its some crazy-huge number well in excess of the size of your drive and thus one that you wont ever hit) - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 12:58 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any ideas? I am running Windows media center 2005, and it's set up with a usb 2.0 cable Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues
D'ohand I am guessing to reformat it, I would have to remove everything first and the re-format to NTFS, correct? fiddle sticks and fudge knuckles Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your drive in question is probably formatted in the FAT32 file system. There is a 4GB filesize limitation in FAT32. If thats a serious problem for you, and you don't expect to be using this external drive on a Mac or anything you could always reformat to NTFS which does not have such a limit. (well it technically does have a limit but its some crazy-huge number well in excess of the size of your drive and thus one that you wont ever hit) - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 12:58 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any ideas? I am running Windows media center 2005, and it's set up with a usb 2.0 cable Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues
yeah. :( Re-formatting it to NTFS will erase the stuff on there, so you'll have to copy the good stuff elsewhere first. I should also point out that there are apps out there to allow you to access an NTFS drive on a Mac if push comes to shove. (So don't feel like NTFS means you'll never be able to plug it into a mac if you absolutely had to.) HFS+ is the similar 'no limit' filesystem on a Mac I believe and there are apps to read these drives from within windows as well ... but in general if you're expecting to use it in windows, go with NTFS. - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 1:46 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D'ohand I am guessing to reformat it, I would have to remove everything first and the re-format to NTFS, correct? fiddle sticks and fudge knuckles Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your drive in question is probably formatted in the FAT32 file system. There is a 4GB filesize limitation in FAT32. If thats a serious problem for you, and you don't expect to be using this external drive on a Mac or anything you could always reformat to NTFS which does not have such a limit. (well it technically does have a limit but its some crazy-huge number well in excess of the size of your drive and thus one that you wont ever hit) - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 12:58 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any ideas? I am running Windows media center 2005, and it's set up with a usb 2.0 cable Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues
Heath Before you format, try using WinZip to zip the files up and split them up into smaller files. Take them off the USB stick/drive/whatever you are using then format the drive. Hope that helps. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah. :( Re-formatting it to NTFS will erase the stuff on there, so you'll have to copy the good stuff elsewhere first. I should also point out that there are apps out there to allow you to access an NTFS drive on a Mac if push comes to shove. (So don't feel like NTFS means you'll never be able to plug it into a mac if you absolutely had to.) HFS+ is the similar 'no limit' filesystem on a Mac I believe and there are apps to read these drives from within windows as well ... but in general if you're expecting to use it in windows, go with NTFS. - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 1:46 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D'ohand I am guessing to reformat it, I would have to remove everything first and the re-format to NTFS, correct? fiddle sticks and fudge knuckles Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade meade.dave@ wrote: Your drive in question is probably formatted in the FAT32 file system. There is a 4GB filesize limitation in FAT32. If thats a serious problem for you, and you don't expect to be using this external drive on a Mac or anything you could always reformat to NTFS which does not have such a limit. (well it technically does have a limit but its some crazy-huge number well in excess of the size of your drive and thus one that you wont ever hit) - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 12:58 PM, Heath heathparks@ wrote: Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any ideas? I am running Windows media center 2005, and it's set up with a usb 2.0 cable Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues
You can do a conversion to NTFS that doesnt destroy data: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php But theres a small but real risk of something going wrong with the conversion, so its wise to backup everything, but this sort of defeats the advantage of converting. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah. :( Re-formatting it to NTFS will erase the stuff on there, so you'll have to copy the good stuff elsewhere first. I should also point out that there are apps out there to allow you to access an NTFS drive on a Mac if push comes to shove. (So don't feel like NTFS means you'll never be able to plug it into a mac if you absolutely had to.) HFS+ is the similar 'no limit' filesystem on a Mac I believe and there are apps to read these drives from within windows as well ... but in general if you're expecting to use it in windows, go with NTFS. - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 1:46 PM, Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D'ohand I am guessing to reformat it, I would have to remove everything first and the re-format to NTFS, correct? fiddle sticks and fudge knuckles Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade meade.dave@ wrote: Your drive in question is probably formatted in the FAT32 file system. There is a 4GB filesize limitation in FAT32. If thats a serious problem for you, and you don't expect to be using this external drive on a Mac or anything you could always reformat to NTFS which does not have such a limit. (well it technically does have a limit but its some crazy-huge number well in excess of the size of your drive and thus one that you wont ever hit) - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 12:58 PM, Heath heathparks@ wrote: Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any ideas? I am running Windows media center 2005, and it's set up with a usb 2.0 cable Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
[videoblogging] Re: Digital Hardrives/transfer issues
D'oh, again.sometimes you just can't see the forrest for the treesthanks! Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heath Before you format, try using WinZip to zip the files up and split them up into smaller files. Take them off the USB stick/drive/whatever you are using then format the drive. Hope that helps. David http://www.taoofdavid.com http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade meade.dave@ wrote: yeah. :( Re-formatting it to NTFS will erase the stuff on there, so you'll have to copy the good stuff elsewhere first. I should also point out that there are apps out there to allow you to access an NTFS drive on a Mac if push comes to shove. (So don't feel like NTFS means you'll never be able to plug it into a mac if you absolutely had to.) HFS+ is the similar 'no limit' filesystem on a Mac I believe and there are apps to read these drives from within windows as well ... but in general if you're expecting to use it in windows, go with NTFS. - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 1:46 PM, Heath heathparks@ wrote: D'ohand I am guessing to reformat it, I would have to remove everything first and the re-format to NTFS, correct? fiddle sticks and fudge knuckles Heath http://batmangeek.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Meade meade.dave@ wrote: Your drive in question is probably formatted in the FAT32 file system. There is a 4GB filesize limitation in FAT32. If thats a serious problem for you, and you don't expect to be using this external drive on a Mac or anything you could always reformat to NTFS which does not have such a limit. (well it technically does have a limit but its some crazy-huge number well in excess of the size of your drive and thus one that you wont ever hit) - Dave On Nov 13, 2007 12:58 PM, Heath heathparks@ wrote: Speaking of hard drives, has this happened to anyone else, whenever I try and transfer a video file that is over 4 gigs or so, maybe 4.5 gigs, my computer won't let me transfer it. It says the file is in use, but it's not, it only happens with larger files and Robert it's a Seagate, so any ideas? I am running Windows media center 2005, and it's set up with a usb 2.0 cable Heath http://batmangeek.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
