Movie file too Large?

[foxhole]

Trying to move a 15gb movie file from laptop to ext usb hard drive but reports hard drive has not enough space, but has 120gb free?

 

[studips]

reformat the usb drive heheheh. might be a bit extreme i suppose....

 

[foxhole]

Very, I have 40 movies on the hard drive. How would that help?

 

[Monkeh]

If the drive is formatted FAT32, the maximum filesize is 4GiB.

 

[foxhole]

That would explain it. Have another formated for my Macs will try that.

 

[Monkeh]

That will also be FAT32 if Windows can read it. Otherwise it'd be HFS+, which Windows cannot (normally) read, let alone write.

 

[foxhole]

Yes was aware but can tranfer to my mac and then to hard drive.
May just stream it to my TV, just prefer to keep on a hard drive as my wife gets confused easlily and has trouble just choosing the correct remote control.

 

[Monkeh]

I would be seriously surprised if your TV can read HFS+.

 

[foxhole]

No will be streaming for laptop, not something the wife can cope with so keep films on external hard drive as well to just plug in tv etc.