Alright, I have a Toshiba External hard drive. It still has 190GB to be stored. I'm trying to move some movie files to the hard drive, but it's not working. The error said I don't have enough space. It's weird because if I combined all the movies and it's only about 20GB.

The file names are these.

MovieName*.2009.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS
MovieName*.2007.Bluray.x264.720p.AC3-WAF

Help now! I have to leave to SF for a business trip, and this thing's keeping me here.

 

are you able to access stuff you already have on the drive?

 

Yes.

 

Perhaps the files are too large. Are they larger than 4GB?

 

What OS?

 

Yes. Why would that be a problem though? I don't understand..

 

xp

 

argggghh

 

If the drive is formatted Fat32 the max file size is 4GB.

 

If youre running a FAT32 windows XP you cant have any files larger than 4 gig
edit: yeah, what doopstr said

 

What's fat32??

So, there's no solution to this..?

 

You can convert the drive to NTFS
http://www.ntfs.com/quest3.htm
Replace C: with whatever drive letter the disk is using.

 

hm.. trying it now

 

i put convert C: /fs:ntfs and it says "please enter the C: drive volume label. What do I put there then?

 

where can i find a volume label of the C drive??

 

The file system on your HD...

It doesn't look like you'll solve this quickly/easily, I'd leave lol

 

label label where can i find a label for the c drive..

i think im almost there lol

 

You want to convert your external drive. Not your local C: drive.

 

^ i know but then i opened "my computer", and the main local hard drive reads "I", not "C".

in fact, my external drive reads "C".. that's why i just assumed it's C..

 

doopstr where are you

 

You can get the label with a dir command
[E:\]dir
Volume in drive E is LEOPRIME-DATA
Volume Serial Number is FE04-319E

Directory of E:\
...

The label would be LEOPRIME-DATA for this example.

 

okay got it!!!!! wooohhhoo

it was toshiba ext

im rebooting now!

thank you so much!!!!!

 

omg.... alright i just rebooted and the error msg said "it could not determine the file system of C drive".

and it didn't change...

 

shit.. doorstr is gone..

 

From what I've understood, you need to convert the file system of your external drive (assigned drive letter I) to NTFS in order to hold the 4GB+ files.

If you have no other files on your external drive, just reformat it and choose NTFS as the file system type. Otherwise you would run CONVERT I: /FS:NTFS

If you've converted your C drive to NTFS, hopefully it hasn't messed anything up. Your last error message makes me think your system doesn't boot anymore.

 

Next time hit up the PS3 forums for HD torrents.. there's a bunch of guys who either compress HD files under 4G's or break them up for FAT32 format.

 

Yes but his main drive is the I partition and his external drive was C. Usually it's the other way around

 

Glad I could help...