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drac
03-12-2006, 02:04 PM
Hi all. I am fairly new to the .tivo file transfer feature. I am trying to transfer a large TV show that is about 4.6 gigs. Just when there is a little left to transfer, the TIVo desktop program seems to start over, without ever finishing the transfer. Is there a limit to the size of the file transfer? Can anybody tell me anything about this? Thanks.
xnevergiveinx
03-12-2006, 04:24 PM
is the destination hard drive for the show formatted in fat32? because fat 32 can only handle up to 4 gig files
drac
03-12-2006, 04:44 PM
Yes, I have fat32. How about NTFC?
Thanks
xnevergiveinx
03-12-2006, 04:45 PM
you mean ntfs. it will work
greg_burns
03-12-2006, 10:01 PM
You can convert any FAT32 drive to NTFS from within Windows XP at the command prompt:

convert c: /FS:NTFS

Replace c: with the drive letter you are converting. I would definately do a backup first!!!

Edit: wanted to throw in here that there is another 4GB size limitation when using https method w/ a browser.
xnevergiveinx
03-13-2006, 01:00 AM
after converting to ntfs, you might also see a little increase in free disk space.

i had my friend do this, because she was running fat32 and barely had 80 mb free disk space and didn't know how to install a new hard drive. it freed up about 300 mb and got her out of a jam until she got a new hard drive
mgar
03-13-2006, 01:06 AM
Can an external USB drive be converted to NTFS? I bump up against the 4GB limit when I try to transfer large files to this drive.
xnevergiveinx
03-13-2006, 02:32 AM
Can an external USB drive be converted to NTFS? I bump up against the 4GB limit when I try to transfer large files to this drive.


sure, i'm pretty sure you can just do it like the other hard drive, but replace the drive letter with the one assigned to the external.
if that doesn't work, unscrew the case and install the hard drive onto one of your IDE connections and run the convert command for the drive's letter
i would recommend that if you want to convert, that you should backup first
a better idea is to transfer all the junk off of the external and then format the external.
fred2
03-13-2006, 01:10 PM
Can an external USB drive be converted to NTFS? I bump up against the 4GB limit when I try to transfer large files to this drive.

Yes but I did get some "error" or intercept message when attempting to do it. There was an MS knowledge base article on getting around the error and I needed to use Partition Magic to fix something but ultimately did change it to ntfs.

Caveat - if you need to use the usb drive with older Windows' system (win95/98) or maybe even unix systems you might not want to convert it since these other systems may not be able to access the drive. I think Unix could read but could not gain write-permissions - but I'm not sure of these issues.
drac
03-13-2006, 10:27 PM
you mean ntfs. it will work
Thanks Xnevergiveinx
drac
03-13-2006, 10:31 PM
You can convert any FAT32 drive to NTFS from within Windows XP at the command prompt:

convert c: /FS:NTFS

Replace c: with the drive letter you are converting. I would definately do a backup first!!!

Edit: wanted to throw in here that there is another 4GB size limitation when using https method w/ a browser.

Thanks greg_burns, will definately do....
classicsat
03-14-2006, 02:40 PM
Some Linuxes have NTFS read built in .Others need it added.
I have my USB HDD partitioned into a 16MB FAT32 partition, to write on with Linux and Windows, and a 170 some MB NTFS partition.