Thread: External Hard Drive trouble transferring really large files
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Old 07-06-2009, 05:36 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by lawson_jl View Post
If your using the drive in a strickly Windows enviroment there isn't any downside. If your using it with an Apple or Linux system you may have some systems that can't read the drive. At this point I pretty sure all major Linux distros can read and write NTFS (Ubuntu can) and I'm not entirely sure what Apple can and cant' read. Natively I'm thinking Apple can't read NTFS but there are addons. Maybe some one more familar with Apple can chime in?
You lost me :3

I have Windows Vista 32b

I want to change it from FAT32 like you said to NTFS so I can transfer a few files that are over 4 Gigabytes....I dunno how to do that though. How would I go about doing that to transfer some huge files onto that external hard drive?
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