import error

[mypumpkins]

Newbie here......I am trying to upload my mini Dv's onto my pc and make DVD's out of them. I am using Windows Vista. I was uploading them onto my internal hard drive with no problem. I was starting to run out of space, so I bought an external WD Mybook 500g hard drive. When I go to upload my dv onto the new hard drive, partway through the upload I get the following error message...........Import has stopped because the imported video file has reached the 4 gigabyte file-size limit supported by the current file system FAT32............. I was able to import the entire video onto my internal drive. What is going on?

[guns1inger]

Your external drive has been formatted as FAT32, which has a 4GB file size limit (pretty much what the error was telling you). This was done probably to make the drive as compatible as possible across multiple systems (PC, Mac and Linux). if you are only going to use it on your PC, reformat it as NTFS and you wont have any file size problems.

[dadrab]

Give http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456984.aspx a look and see if it helps you out. I've never tried it, but apparently, you can reformat the storage type without wiping the drive.

Once you've redone your external drive, you can simply move items off your internal drive to the external storage and free up space. At least on my system, I get a speedier, more accurate transfer going to an internal drive.