"File too big to fit" onto device or portable hard drive even though it should!?

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Chippy

All weekend I've been trying to solve this. However after lots of frustration I will try my luck and ask you guys.

Basically I'm trying the put video files onto my external hard drive, however when I try it says that two of the files (both being around 7gb) are too large even though there's 50gb free! In the past I've backed up my entire documents folder reaching 44gb so it should work...what's happening?

Thanks

Answer
I'm guessing you never formatted the drive after you bought it, it's probably a FAT32 which won't let you put individual files that go over 4gb onto that drive. You can get around this by first backing all files on that drive up to a different media and formatting it to a NTFS You can then put files much larger onto that drive. The reason the folders you put on that drive in the past didn't give you an error is because those folders were made up of many many smaller files that were under 4gb.

What is the actual capacity of a 750GB portable hard drive?

RT83

I just bought my first portable hard drive so I'm not quite sure how much capacity the software, etc. takes but I'm supposed to have 750GB, but it says total capacity is only 697.7GB. I have a mac and it said I had to reformat the drive before using it. Could that have lessened the capacity? Its a WD My Passport Essential 750GB portable hard drive. It seems like losing 50GB is a lot, so I was just wondering if this was the norm.

Answer
some of the loss could be due to formatting or software on the hard drive but most of what you experience is the result of marketing. You purchased a 750,000,000,000Byte hard drive marketing tells you that is equal to 750GB it isn't because 1GB = 1024MB and 1MB = 1024KB and 1KB = 1024B

so following that math 750,000,000,000B/1024 = 732421875KB or 715255.7MB or 698.5GB

The 800MB( or .8GB) difference is what might be due to the formatting partitions or if there is any packaged software installed

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