When copying giant (greater than 4 gig) files and Virtual Machines and Video and what-not to your fresh new External Hard Drive you might be greeted with this message, or one like it: Doh! This hard drive came formatted as FAT32, which doesn't support files larger than 4 gigs. Anymeeting desktop app for mac download free. Re: Windows says USB stick is too small, but it isn't Post by Jorpho » Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:02 pm UTC I think journaled file systems like NTFS and ext3 are also not so good for flash media, since they have a limited rewrite capacity. ![]() You can either Format the drive, by right clicking the Drive in My Computer and using the Tools tab, or, if you already have a bunch of files on it. Run an Administrator Console (click the Start Menu, type cmd, then right click on the command prompt and click 'Run As Administrator') then run: C: Users Scott>convert h: /fs:ntfs /nosecurity The type of the file system is FAT32. Enter current volume label for drive H: My Book The volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk might report errors when no corruption is present. Volume My Book created 1/31/2003 2:23 PM Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX Windows is verifying files and folders. File and folder verification is complete. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 244,136,352 KB total disk space. 128 KB in 4 hidden files. 544 KB in 17 folders. 3,063,072 KB in 63 files. 241,072,576 KB are available. 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit. 7,629,261 total allocation units on disk. 7,533,518 allocation units available on disk. Determining disk space required for file system conversion. Total disk space: 244196001 KB Free space on volume: 241072576 KB Space required for conversion: 369647 KB Converting file system Conversion complete.and continue your copy, with the crisis averted. Bummer there's no 'Convert File System' button in the Tools Property Tab of a Disk Drive. When you try and do the same thing in OS X, copy a > 4 GB file to a FAT 32 drive, you see Finder Error Code -1309. My solution was to format the drive as HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in Disk Utility), since we were only sharing between Macs using the external drive. I think the easiest solution is just cut a large drive up and format natively for each OS. OS X can read NTFS though, so if you only need to go that way, you are set. The other option is MacDrive, so that Windows can read/write HFS+. I can't vouch for it though, I have never had the need to use it. • Tell us some more • Upload in Progress • Upload failed. Please upload a file larger than 100x100 pixels • We are experiencing some problems, please try again. • You can only upload files of type PNG, JPG, or JPEG. • You can only upload files of type 3GP, 3GPP, MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, or RM. • You can only upload photos smaller than 5 MB. • You can only upload videos smaller than 600MB. • You can only upload a photo (png, jpg, jpeg) or a video (3gp, 3gpp, mp4, mov, avi, mpg, mpeg, rm). • You can only upload a photo or a video. ![]() • Video should be smaller than 600mb/5 minutes • Photo should be smaller than 5mb • You can only upload a photo.
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