Tomm Lorenzin wrote:

"VFAT has a file size limit of 4GB. That would explain the download or
file-transfer corrupting or quitting at 4GB.  This would not happen if
the maxtor was formatted as an ext3 partition."

You could also use FAT32 if you want to maintain cross-platform readability. However, there is a driver for Windows that will allow mounting/reading of ext2 filesystems:
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/

Mike
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