i have a 400gb wd elements external hard drive and i'm having trouble transfering large file's from my computer onto the external hard drive..i keep getting error copying file or folder - there is not enough disc space, delete one or more file's and try again.. only thing is i have 103 gb free space and the file is only 6gb,, it will allow smaller files bout 1-2 gb to transfer,, this 6gb file is all one file so i can't move it bit by bit.. any idea's please ?
what format is the drive in as in fat32 or ntfs? does it use external power or does it get power from pc? firewire or usb? using usb ports in front of pc or back?
Most likely it is a fat32 drive. It can't support anything over 2GB. I would format the drive in NTFS and that should fix it.
I have a western digital external hard drive too. I cant transfer any file over 4gb. I got to make my movies to the folder format not iso so I can transfer it. Hope that helps.
kk0425, recheck your facts as yours is wrong. i've fdisk & formated a 250gig drive as 1 partition using fat32. my drive has a 50gig fat32 partition & a 200gig ntfs partition. fat32 cannot read a file over 4gig in size which is were ntfs comes in. silent714, your drive is most likely fat32 if can't store a file bigger then 4gigs.
ok,, figured out what the problem is,, the hard drive is formatted in fat32 so i can use it on both my ps3 and xbox 360,, thanks for the help people,, and ddp you are correct in the 4gb statement,, i've now split what i needed to split and everything is fine,, i would format into ntfs but with it been use on both console's think i'll leave it as it is... cheers for all the help
if external is partitioned into 2 drives then 1 can be fat 32 for consoles & the other into ntfs. 2nd partioned does not need to be formated to ntfs but just do the conversion to ntfs thru windows.
