Re: USB HDD problem

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx

"MikeM" <mmo45018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is.

Mike

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:34:03 GMT, Simon <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MikeM wrote:
I have been using a 30 G HDD as a USB drive for some time without
problems but today when I tried to copy a 4 G compressed file to it I
got the message that there was insufficient space. There was 13 G of
free space. I ran Norton System Works 2006 Disk Doctor with the free
space box checked and Microsoft disk check disk but I still get the
same message.

Thanks
MikeM
Sounds like it's formatted as fat32 not ntfs, fat32 has a 4gig max file
size limit.
simon


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