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Maxtor External Hard Drive Fat32 or NTFS

  • 18-10-2005 5:35pm
    #1
    J.R.HARTLEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭


    i just recently addded an external 200gb drive to my machine (long story).
    the drive was ready to go out of the box with a fat32 file system already running, hoever when i try and transfer files from the old ntfs internal drive or dl or copy new files to the drive it states that fat32 can't handle any file over 4gb, this is a bit awkward as the purpose behind adding the drive was for rather large files that are clogging up my internal hdd, does anyone have any ideas what i should do, switch back to NTFS maybe and if so would it be safe to use disk management in administrative tools in the control panel to do such a large disk, by the way the computer is running Xp pro, thanks for any help (go easy i'm only a newbie)


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  • #2
    wavin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭wavin


    J.R.HARTLEY wrote:
    i just recently addded an external 200gb drive to my machine (long story).
    the drive was ready to go out of the box with a fat32 file system already running, hoever when i try and transfer files from the old ntfs internal drive or dl or copy new files to the drive it states that fat32 can't handle any file over 4gb, this is a bit awkward as the purpose behind adding the drive was for rather large files that are clogging up my internal hdd, does anyone have any ideas what i should do, switch back to NTFS maybe and if so would it be safe to use disk management in administrative tools in the control panel to do such a large disk, by the way the computer is running Xp pro, thanks for any help (go easy i'm only a newbie)
    if theres nothing on the disk id recomend you convert it to ntfs.dont convert it if theres files on it though, i did this sorta by accident recently and files ended up getting lost/destroyed, cant think of any reason to leave a disk with fat32 if your using win xp like


  • #3
    J.R.HARTLEY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭J.R.HARTLEY


    wavin, it was a brand new disk, completely clean, so i went ahead and formatted it, seems to have worked fine, thanks for the advice.
    trev


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