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Question

How do I put a file that is over 4gb on a FAT32 hard drive?

Oct 17, 2011 12:37PM PDT

Hi, I'm wondering how I would go about putting a file that is over 4gb on my new FAT32 Transcend portable hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks advance.

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It's a hazzle, but....
Oct 17, 2011 7:09PM PDT

how about splitting the file or if this is video, maybe changing it to a different format that can reduce its size. Or maybe changing the file system from FAT32 to NTFS instead.

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I think.
Oct 18, 2011 6:01AM PDT

I think I'd rather change my portable hard drive to NTFS. Do you have any good links to show how I can do this?
Thank you!

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Re: from FAT to NTFS
Oct 18, 2011 6:22AM PDT