I have a 300gb external Maxtor HD and everything about it works fine, I have 100GB still free on it, I can still access it fine, but I'm trying to put an image file onto it that is 6GB and I get an errors saying that my external needs more space filled up. I even deleted over 10GB of stuff, tried again, still didn't work. Any idea what the problem is?

Is it formatted NTFS or Fat32?

fat32

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32

Fat32 has a max file size of roughly 4 gig

- "There's no way anyone would need any more than 4 gigs for a single file."




.....10 years later:

- "D'oh!"