External harddrive wont accept files

External Since: Nov 24, 2007 Posts: 1

i bought a brand-new 500gb Mybook essential and i tried to transfer some
files onto it and it took all the smaller video and movie files up to a
little over 1gb but it wouldnt accept the larger iso files that were
4gigs or over it says the files are too large for the destination and i
dont understand why or how to get past this

External Since: Nov 25, 2007 Posts: 2

"LiNTaS" <LiNTaS.30lv29.TakeThisOut@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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> i bought a brand-new 500gb Mybook essential and i tried to transfer some
> files onto it and it took all the smaller video and movie files up to a
> little over 1gb but it wouldnt accept the larger iso files that were
> 4gigs or over it says the files are too large for the destination and i
> dont understand why or how to get past this
>
>

Sounds like the drive is using FAT32 format, which limits the maximum file
size to 4GB. If you're running Windows [2k, XP or Vista], you can convert
the format to NTFS which will lift the restriction. Look up "convert NTFS"
in Windows help to find out how.