Help with portable hardrive

[patzx12]

Hi, i have a 250GB WD portable USB hardrive. I bought it to store video. When I try to drop video files a small as 7GB it will not take them. I get - NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE. The drive is FAT32.
Any help much appriciated.
Thanks.

 

[ianboydsnr]

i the drive needs formatted in ntfs (i think), fat32 will only hold 4gb

blimy computer numpty an all

 

[cookie]

blimy computer numpty an all

not any more. welcome to geekdom

 

[Invicta Moto]

Hi, i have a 250GB WD portable USB hardrive. I bought it to store video. When I try to drop video files a small as 7GB it will not take them. I get - NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE. The drive is FAT32.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

The other answers are correct. I have a 250gb WD portable the size of a cigarette pack and out of the box it comes as FAT32.

 

[john1215]

Hi, i have a 250GB WD portable USB hardrive. I bought it to store video. When I try to drop video files a small as 7GB it will not take them. I get - NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE. The drive is FAT32.
Any help much appriciated.
Thanks.

Information on these drives on the net suggest that they can be easily re-formatted to NTFS. NTFS is recommended for Win XP.

This link tells you how to reformat the drive http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

 

[patzx12]

Thanks guys.
The response was instant and correct.
Great site.

Thanks again.