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Old 06-18-2010, 03:45 PM   #1
Brianret
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Overcoming 4gb max with multimedia disk.


I have a 1tb Memup mediadisk LX series which I use to store films and music etc. The Hd is formatted with NTFS or FAT 32 (not being too technical I can't tell which) but I do know that I can't transfer more than 4gb per session. I would like to reformat it with my Linux Ubuntu set up to correct this and I would like to know if I can do this and still transfer media from XP and Ubuntu without it becoming a technical nightmare.
 
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XP and Ubuntu support ntfs. It is you best choice I'd think.

XP will easily tell you in properties. Just reformat it in xp and you should be able to read-write in linux if you have a newer disto. Might have to mount it with gui as read-write or from command line. It would be ntfs-3g as the mount type.

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Old 06-18-2010, 03:58 PM   #3
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^ Agreed. If you can't transfer files larger than 4GB, then your drive is currently formatted as FAT32. NTFS is the way to go.
 
Old 06-18-2010, 05:10 PM   #4
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multimedia

Thanks Guys. I checked in properties and it is FAT32. I am now going to follow your suggestion and reformat in NTFS (saving my media to HD first!).
Thanks again.
Brian
 
  


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