Every time I tried copying a .iso image to my external hard drive i got an error (Error code 0) and figured out that it was because the file was over 4gb in size. ...is there any way around this? I don't want the file stuck on my computer...
It's probably because your external harddrive is formatted in FAT32 http://wiki.vuze.com/index.php/FAT32_file_size_limit
Yeah it is. Is the only way to copy the files to reformat the drive? Are there advantages one format has over the other? And also if i reformat will it erase all my data?
Is the only way to copy the files to reformat the drive? Yeah. They are too big for your format. Are there advantages one format has over the other? Yes, others don't have a 4GB file size limit. Some can only be used on windows, some can only be used on mac etc... There's a whole bunch of things you need to consider when reformatting to another type. There's no perfect one that does everything And also if i reformat will it erase all my data? Yes. You will need to backup everything on the external hard drive to somewhere else before reformatting if you want to keep anything on the drive.
Idk lol....depends on your hard drive size, computer, what type your formatting too etc... I haven't needed to do it yet (Mine came formatted to how I needed it) so I don't know how long it'd take.
Why are you transferring the ISO to an external? Why don't you use a burner like Power ISO to burn the ISO to a DVD; then you can play it in your DVD player.
I have another hard drive that's NTFS, the only problem is I can't write files onto the drive with a mac is there a format I can use for mac and windows that doesn't have a file size restriction
I don't think so. It's either one or the other. You can partition your hard drive into two separate areas and have one mac compatible and the other half with a windows compatible format and you just split up the size of your hard drive, but you can use it for both.
