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ray   06-12-2004 at 04:59:55 PM

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I can't put a dvd file on my hard drive because of a 4
gig limit....can I do this without changing from fat32 to
ntsf? thanks

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Anonymous   06-12-2004 at 07:20:54 PM
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Ray wrote:
> I can't put a dvd file on my hard drive because of a 4
> gig limit....can I do this without changing from fat32 to
> ntsf? thanks

No.
Go with the better file system.

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Anonymous   06-13-2004 at 03:03:44 AM
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Hi Ray,

No can do without converting to NTFS. FAT32 comes with a file size limit of
4GB minus a few bytes. This is a limitation of this file system, there is no
workaround.

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"Ray" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1ba1201c450a7$11220820$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I can't put a dvd file on my hard drive because of a 4
> gig limit....can I do this without changing from fat32 to
> ntsf? thanks

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Anonymous   06-13-2004 at 07:33:22 AM
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well it really depends, if you're talking about copying a
dvd movie to your hard disk and you only have 4 gigs IT
IS POSSIBLE! I recommend software such as InterVideo DVD
Copy which you can find at:

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Inte [...] latinum_Pr
ofile.jsp

Software like or simaliar to DVD Copy compresses the dvd
movie into a smaller form preserving the quality. Most
dvd movies usually average around 700mb after this
conversion. The only downfall is that it is a long
process to convert, so you better have a powerful
computer!

Hope this information was helpful.

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Anonymous   06-13-2004 at 01:29:07 PM
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Anytime you reduce the size, you also foresake quality. The question here
was not whether you can reduce the size of the file, but rather if there was
a way of copying a file greater than 4GB to a FAT32 volume. There isn't.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
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"kirsty" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1bbd701c45121$164f6890$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> well it really depends, if you're talking about copying a
> dvd movie to your hard disk and you only have 4 gigs IT
> IS POSSIBLE! I recommend software such as InterVideo DVD
> Copy which you can find at:
>
> http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Inte [...] latinum_Pr
> ofile.jsp
>
> Software like or simaliar to DVD Copy compresses the dvd
> movie into a smaller form preserving the quality. Most
> dvd movies usually average around 700mb after this
> conversion. The only downfall is that it is a long
> process to convert, so you better have a powerful
> computer!
>
> Hope this information was helpful.

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Anonymous   06-13-2004 at 09:07:05 PM
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No!

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"Ray" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I can't put a dvd file on my hard drive because of a 4
> gig limit....can I do this without changing from fat32 to
> ntsf? thanks

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