shonen Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Hey Guys, I encounter a problem I haven't come across before and my google searching left me up the creek. I have a Western Digital 700 and something GB external HDD which is formatted in FAT32. I was backing up some .iso's prior to an O.S nuking and whenever I tried to copy one particular .iso image which was 4.06 GB in size I received a dialog box basically saying I don't have enough space. 0_o Which is weird considering I have 600 GB of free space to play with on the bloody thing. I am guessing this has something to do with the fat32 format but I am not 100% certain and was wondering if someone could shed some light on to this problem for me. Thanks in advance guys. Shonen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 The maximum filesize on FAT32 is 4GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shonen Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 The maximum filesize on FAT32 is 4GB. Ahhh I thought it was something like that, DAMN. thanks for the clarification mate. I take it I wont have this issue with NTFS but if I do that it will cock things up with the permissions wouldn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Yeah, it would. What about exFAT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Do a convert to NTFS and you should be fine to copy the files over. Open a command prompt and then type: convert driveletter: /FS:NTFSÂ Â /NoSecurity Driveletter: is obviously the letter of your removable drive. The nosecurity switch is so that when you move it from PC to PC, other people can read the drive, otherwise, they need to take ownership of the files and folders to read them. Also note, anyone using a FAT system, will not be able to read the NTFS disk afterwards, so if you still use win95/98 on any machines, you wont be able to read the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shonen Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 Oh cool never knew you could do that from cmd, thats just awesome. Thanks so much for the tip Digip and the good explanation that came with it. Very much appreciated. =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 You can do that with thumb drives as well. I wouldnt call it security, but keeps the average person from being able to read it if they tried to copy anything from it without knowing to take ownership of the files first. Great for people with XP Home edition, since they will get an error when trying to mount the thumbdrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netshroud Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Why can you convert with no security, but you can't format a drive as NTFS with no security? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Why can you convert with no security, but you can't format a drive as NTFS with no security? because that breaks things ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Why can you convert with no security, but you can't format a drive as NTFS with no security? A format wipes everything, so it essentially wouldn't matter what the security level is at that point, because you would lose all the data in the process of formatting. I beleive NTFS sets a SID based on the RID when doing an NTFS format, as where a convert, has options as to what SID owns the converted filesystem and objects, files and folders(Default being administrators and creator/owners only). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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