My Book Issues ('my bad?)

Hello all,

I bought a 160Gb WD My Book to use for my backups. I have XP Pro NTFS and am trying to transfer a 29Gb Zip file to it. The My Book is FAT32 out of the box and shows to have about 155Gb Free. But after about 15% of the copy process (~5Gb), a "disc full" window pops up and playtime is over.

Any suggestions? Thanks, Lar

 

FAT32 should go larger than 4Gb. I think it was FAT16 that was limited to around 4Gb. See these references:

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/fat32.html
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_2239651_2
http://www.allensmith.net/Storage/HDDlimit/FAT32.htm

However, the advice to reformat as NTFS is still good. It is a better system to use.

 

Hey guys, not only did the reformat fix the problem but it sped up the transfer rate by 5x!! Thanks, Lar