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Capturing Video stops at 20 minutes

Feb 20, 2006 2:47AM PST

I am using Dazzle DVC 80 and have been capturing videos and burning DVDs for quite a while. I use MovieMaker and DVD complete. I purchased an external hard drive recently and am saving my files to that drive. All of a sudden no matter what I set the timer to, the capturing stops at around 20 minutes, 4,194,302 KB. There is no way to tell that it has stopped until I go to view and see that it didn't capture all of the video. Is it possible that I can only save so much to a single file on the external drive. It is 160 G. Help, I'm clueless on this.

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Almost sounds like a FAT32 limit.
Feb 20, 2006 3:39AM PST

That's the biggest filesize you can make on a FAT32 volume.

No fix is planned,

Bob

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Almost sounds like a FAT32 limit
Feb 20, 2006 4:47AM PST

I had no problem when I was saving directly to my computer's hard drive. The problem began when I started saving to my external hard drive which a 2 MB cache. Do you think that's the problem. I'm not familiar with the FAT32 limit. Any way around it?

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Most externals come in FAT32. Here's why.
Feb 20, 2006 5:36AM PST

It will work on Windows 98,ME, and Macintosh.

There is no fix or workaround. You have to convert the drive to a file system that supports over 4GB files.

Since no OS is noted, I can't write more.

Bob

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Most externals come in FAT32.
Feb 20, 2006 7:47PM PST

The OS is Windows XP Home.

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Then you have NTFS capabilities.
Feb 20, 2006 9:16PM PST

You might want to consider making it a NTFS volume.

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I had the same problem, just reformat to NTFS
Feb 26, 2006 8:06PM PST

Since the external drive is new, you can probably afford to wipe out whatever is on there. Just start fresh, reformat the drive to NTFS, and you won't have a filesize limit anymore.

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Kinda of a novice at that stuff....
Feb 26, 2006 9:36PM PST

What exactly doest reformatting the external to NTFS involve?