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Computer wizz's and external hard drives
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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.
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it says i have 22.8 free. and i only need to put a 5 gig file on thier.
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tried it on 2 diff computers so its not the computer. ugh... help me pleaseeee
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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.
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yea, right click it and have the filesystem change to NTFS
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WHOAAAA ok ok, its in fat 32 but i dont see anywhere wehere i could change it to nfps???
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i think if its partitioned it acts like used space tho
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by reformating the drive, but then you would have to backup your external.
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i thikn theres a way to convert it without reformatting it
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no i'm pretty sure you can't
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no it doesn't it acts as a seperate hd
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