Problem Copying Single File > 4Gb

[Siva Kollipara]

Recently I bought a Western Digital 500GB hard disk and trying to copy ISO image of a wedding DVD, it did not allow because it is more than 4Gb in size. The error message says"Cannot copy files bigger than 4Gb".
But when I tried to back up directly from DVD it created a MDS file and several small linking files.
The quesion
1) Is it problem only with WD hard disks?
2) Is it a problem of XP OS (not of Apple)..?
3) If it is a known problem, how do we copy files from RED-Drive that are more than a minute(i.e > 4Gb = 27Mb/Sec * 24fps * 60 sec).

Forgive me if I did not follow this particular point else where in the forum.

 

[Júlio Taubkin]

Your new drive is formated in FAT32, wich is a horrible file system for video editing, because it cannot have files larger than 4GB. You should reformat your drive in HFS+ (Journaled) if you are working on a Mac, or NTFS if you're working on windows.

 

[Siva Kollipara]

Thank you Taubkin.
Newbee, learning step by step.

 

[Siva Kollipara]

When I hooked it to my computer it did not give me any option.
1) How do I format it now for NTFS?
2) Is there any limit on maximum single file size allowed in a)XP-NTFS b)Apple-HFS?

 

[Júlio Taubkin]

I'm sorry, man, I don't know how to format a drive via windows, it's been a long time before I switched. Probably there's a disk utitily in your control panel. Best thing to do is to look around on the web. It's probably an easy process, but you will loose all of the data in your drive, so have somewhere to dump the drive before you do it.

No maximum file limit on NTFS...

Hope it helps!

 

[Stokestack]

Ntfs

Ntfs

Hey Visa,

Because your drive is already formatted with FAT32 and recognized by the computer, it'll show up in Windows Explorer. I think Explorer is under Accessories under the Start menu by default. The first thing I do when setting up Windows is put a shortcut to Explorer on the desktop; it's ridiculous that it's not there by default. If you want to set up a shortcut, right-click on your desktop, select New / Shortcut, and enter C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe as the path.

In Explorer, right-click on the drive (make sure it's the correct drive!) and select Format. There's a selector for File System, which will probably default to NTFS anyway. That's it. It'll probably take a long time. I assume you know that all data will be lost from the drive.

NTFS's limits are in the terabytes.

If you need to move files between Windows and Macs, get MacDrive. It allows Windows to read and write Apple HFS, so I formatted all my external drives with HFS and installed MacDrive on all my Windows computers. For some reason, you can buy MacDrive on Amazon for half the price of buying it direct, so it winds up being $25. I put it on a USB thumb drive, so if I need to take files somewhere, I just bring my external drive and that thumb drive.

EDIT: Hey, what's up with this forum software stripping capitals out of the message title? I typed "NTFS".

 

[Ryan Sims]

Quick Format

Quick Format

For Windows, you should be able to do a "Quick" style Format to change from FAT32 to NTFS. I should only take a few seconds to make the change ever for fairly large drives (320GB range) Of course, you do loose all the data on that drive when you format it. So be careful when selecting which drive to format. FYI - FAT32 has basically a 2GB file size restriction.

 

[Charles Angus]

I have heard rumours that Journaling can make things odd for video. The recommendation is, I believe, Journaling for your boot drive, and normal HFS+ Case Sensitive for media drives.

Charles

 

[Cail Young]

I have heard rumours that Journaling can make things odd for video. The recommendation is, I believe, Journaling for your boot drive, and normal HFS+ Case Sensitive for media drives.

Charles

Close. Case Sensitive is actually not great as many OS X applications tend to ignore case retention completely which can screw things up. Regular HFS+ is case retentive (i.e. case is retained but ignored when requesting files).

 

[Jim Arthurs]

Of course, you do loose all the data on that drive when you format it. So be careful when selecting which drive to format. FYI - FAT32 has basically a 2GB file size restriction.

You can change a drive from FAT32 to NTFS without destroying the data... it's a one way street though, as you can't go back the other direction.

FAT32 fails at a single file just above 4GB, as I have several 3+ and just at 4GB files sitting on one right now...

 

[Siva Kollipara]

Yeah, I have copied data to some temp disk and reformatted to NTFS format.
More than the simple answers, I like the support, one gets on this forum.

Excellent!
Thank you all

I will keep troubling you..(at least not very basic like this)