Western Digital 320GB External Drive Question...Help...

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ocanyc

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I believe this drive is fat32. What I tried to do was take a 6.5GB movie from my laptop and transfer it to the drive and I kept getting "Not enough space on disk" message. But the drive has 290GB free. Does anyone know why this may be happening?

Ultimately, what I was trying to do was to see if I could play the movie on my Ps3 via the external drive which would've been cool...
 
My WD 500gb My book essentials was formatted in FAT32. I reformatted to NTFS first thing when I got it. Give it a try, as I think, but am not positive yours is FAT32
 
Well, I might as well give you guys the whole story.

I currently use the Western Digital(fat 32) as a pvr with a tv box I have so I dont want to reformat it or I wont be able to use it.

I have an ntfs external hard drive that I use for other files, etc.

My Ps3, seems to only recognize my fat32 and now I find out I cant transfer files bigger than 4gb.

So how am I suppose to play those big movies on Ps3?

If you guys dont know, is there another section in this forum that may be able to help?

Thanks
 
the ps3 only can use fat32, so for movies i think u are limited on 4gb, unless youwanna stream bigger movies its not possible transfer bigger ones.
 
ocanyc said:
Well, I might as well give you guys the whole story.

I currently use the Western Digital(fat 32) as a pvr with a tv box I have so I dont want to reformat it or I wont be able to use it.

I have an ntfs external hard drive that I use for other files, etc.

My Ps3, seems to only recognize my fat32 and now I find out I cant transfer files bigger than 4gb.

So how am I suppose to play those big movies on Ps3?

If you guys dont know, is there another section in this forum that may be able to help?

Thanks
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Looks like you need to use dual layer DVDs or Blu Ray for files larger than 4GB.
Alternatively, split the files into 2 parts..
 
Thanks for your suggestions guys..

Can I stream using Windows XP Home Edition and this program.......http://www.redkawa.com/mediacenters/ps3mediacenterx/


I wouldnt mind splitting a high quality converted bluray movie into 2 parts actually, I just never did it before. If I could stream using my current OS, then that would be great too.
 
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