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

How many free space was left on the computer HD?

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"geronimo" <Jamesw.RemoveThis@grandecom.net> wrote in message
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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.
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"Michael Cecil" <macecil.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:40:37 -0600, geronimo <Jamesw.TakeThisOut@grandecom.net> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> 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.
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Are you puttin all the files in the ROOT? There is a limit for the number of
files in the root, especially on FAT32. Just create some Folders to put your
files into.

Mike.
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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.


On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:45:38 -0600, Michael Cecil <macecil DeleteThis @gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:40:37 -0600, geronimo <Jamesw DeleteThis @grandecom.net> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>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.
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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..



geronimo wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:45:38 -0600, Michael Cecil <macecil.TakeThisOut@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:40:37 -0600, geronimo <Jamesw.TakeThisOut@grandecom.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.

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