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Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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...reformat the Hard Drive so both Macintosh and PC computers can read and write to it. Simple, you have to format it by selecting Dos Drive which supports NTFS format. or else try other option which is ...

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...fat32 If this is your bootable drive that windows in installed on you will need to completely reinstall windows to convert it back to FAT 32. If this is a spare drive then you can right click the ...

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Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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reformat will I have issues with the files as they are now NTFS vs FAT32. Are their any risks associated with changing the format? Thanks in advance. The only risk associated with file formats is that

Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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...message says The file "file name" is too large for the destination file system. I am using USB transer. What is the problem? Reformat the drive from Fat32 to NTFS. Largest file size on Fat32 is 4 ...

Question about My Book Essential 1TB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive

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...advice and reformat it to fat32 or partition say 500gb or however much you want to fat32, ignore rjhahn random answer...... It is not design to work on PS3. Have to buy a ps3 with a hard drive in

Question about Passport 320GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive

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...reformat using FAT32 attributes. If you are using windows vista, then its super easy to partition and format your external HD while logged on. if you need more instructions on how to do this, let me ...

Question about My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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...to use Disk Management to reformat your "My Book" in FAT32, but you will likely have problems with doing that too, since the technology of FAT32 isn't capable of recognizing really large hard

Question about Passport WDXML800UE (WDXML800UETE) 80 GB Hard Drive

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FAT32 has a maximum single file size of 4GB. Reformat your drive using NTFS file system to enable file saving larger than 4GB. To reformat the drive: -insert external drive - open "My Computer", point

Question about My Book Essential 320GB External USB 2.0 - WDH1U3200N Hard Drive

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...click on the icon for the MyBook. Choose 'FORMAT'. Choose 'FAT32'. Click OK to start the

Question about HPBAAD0020HBK-NHSN 2 TB USB 2.0 Hard Drive

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...reformat to fat32 how do i do this? Hello, you will need additional software for this as windows cant create FAT32 partitions larger then 32GB. Try these: ...

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