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Western Digital Passport Cannot copy large files

Started by bigdog1100 , Sep 03 2009 07:58 PM

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bigdog1100
Posted 03 September 2009 - 07:58 PM

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I have WD Passport mini drive. When I try to copy 7 gig worth of data in one file to that drive, it gives me disk is full error. I have 75% free space. What may be an issue?
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Posted 04 September 2009 - 07:41 AM

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I think I figured it out. It's Fat and not NTFS. I'll reformat it and try again. Any other ideas?
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Posted 04 September 2009 - 07:45 AM

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Howdy:

Yep, you have to reformat to NTFS. FAT32 has a 4GB file size limitation.

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Posted 08 September 2009 - 01:38 PM

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Yep. Reformatting solved the problem. This topic is now done.
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