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Old 30-06-2008, 10:36 PM   #1 (permalink) Top
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Hi everybody, have good day,

I have this situation, i bought a 120 gb western digital usb external drive, but when i try to copy a file larger than 4gb it says this message:

Cannot copy this file, parameter is incorret.

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Old 30-06-2008, 10:42 PM   #2 (permalink) Top
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the problem is your filesystem is probably FAT32 which is actually limited to a max of 4Gb filesize, the solution is to convert the filesystems which you want to contain files over 4Gb to the much more secure NTFS

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Hello, how can i do in order to convert it?, i have to format it?
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Hello, how can i do in order to convert it?, i have to format it?
no, you don't format it, presumably your using XP, goto a command prompt & type
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CONVERT D: /FS:NTFS
this command converts D: to FileSystem type NTFS

assuming you wish to convert D:
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If i have data on it right now, do i loose it with the convertion?
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If i have data on it right now, do i loose it with the convertion?
no, your data should be fine
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