Unable to move file in exterrnal HD fat32?

[Laler]

hi,
i purchased a Acer Aspire western Digital 180 Gb external hard drive that is Fat32. it unable to store my file (audio,video),it says file is too large,Does anyone know if anything would work?

[Rawko]

hi,
I don't know for sure if this would work, I think so, but, I'm not sure if Win98 has filesize limits when using Samba.

[RoninBlade]

FAT32 has a 4 gig file size limit.

Too bad, in my opinion, else it would make a better "common" filesystem to use for external hard drives, especially backup drives, that could otherwise be shared between Windows and Linux.

[Maxforu]

The xp version and all above (sp1 sp 2 sp3 vista) dont work good with fat32 because fat32 it has a lower compresion and make less available disk space on your hdd so many of the versions quit to dispay that option (fat32) anymore because xp is meant to work with ntfs (works faster and more hdd space) so if you are planning to use xp use ntfs because it is way better and stay away from windows millenium 98 or 2000 because they suck and most of the curent games or software just wont work with them without heavy patches (wich try to turn your lets just say win me in to a sort of xp so they can run the aplications) and if you dont have a fast pc stay away from vista too because takes away lots of resorces and from what i have personally tested the sp2 it is the most reliable and faster windows i have work with.