Computer wizz's and external hard drives

[Irotate360]

well i have an 80 gig ext drive that has 20 gigs that arent being used. i'm trying to put a 5 gig vid file on thier but it won't let me, it says it doesnt have enough room??? wtf is the deal.

 

[Irotate360]

it says i have 22.8 free. and i only need to put a 5 gig file on thier.

 

[Irotate360]

tried it on 2 diff computers so its not the computer. ugh... help me pleaseeee

 

[Dakoulas]

Your drive might be in Fat32 format so the biggest file you can put on it is 4 gigs no matter how much space you have left on your drive.

 

[720skiguy]

yea, right click it and have the filesystem change to NTFS

 

[JockinJLoads]

it might be partitioned

 

[Irotate360]

WHOAAAA ok ok, its in fat 32 but i dont see anywhere wehere i could change it to nfps???

 

[Albrecht.]

i think if its partitioned it acts like used space tho

 

[St.Steezy]

by reformating the drive, but then you would have to backup your external.

 

[720skiguy]

i thikn theres a way to convert it without reformatting it

 

[Snowcase]

no i'm pretty sure you can't

 

[Snowcase]

no it doesn't it acts as a seperate hd

 

[lpcmen2001]

dont think so...