I am a total . .. FAT32 hits Home!

Grazie wrote on 10/1/2005, 1:20 AM
. .this is not the MPEG2 thing .. something else . . but kinda linked .. .

So, I've got a series of external Maxtor f/w drives. So far and after . .er . .3 years .. maybe .. they have been good for me.

I'm doing some swapping about of files ready to off load a big AVI to one of them so that I can MPEG2 and create DVD elsewhere .. OK .. Well Here I go transferring the 25gb file from one of my internal drives to the Maxtor. Message comes back, "Drive Full. Delete and make space" kinda message. I view the ext drive .. loadsa space . . sesshh what's happening NOW!? So I go through a complete transfer of my files from the ext drive onto space on another internal. I have now cleaned completely the ext drive. Repeat the 25gb file transfer ..and I get the same warning "No space! I told you once before, delete some of the F$%£^&* files Grazie!" .Seesssh . .now I'm starting to loose it a bit .. like after this week I need this now! Even when I try to find a solution this darn drive decides to go AWOL!

I count to 10 .. I can do this y'kow? Count that is. And decide to look a the properties of this Maxtor drive, it tells me that in fact I do have 111gbs of free space and . .yes you've guessed it . ..what a total Plank . . it is of course FAT32! I knew this and had forgotten . . sooo... I'm now rendering the AVI out to the FAT32 and let Vegas render the 32 chunks.

Am I stupid or what! Anyways, it make me clean up an external though. Hah!

Seriously, is there a way to chop a rendered AVI into FAT32 chunks? Before anybody asks the question, I am informed that these Maxtor f/w cannot be formatted to NTFS.

And for the record, and it might have some bearing on my MPEG2 issue, this 25gb 2hour AVI render is rendering to AVI in something like 25 minutes and Task Manager informs me that it is cruising about 10% CPU and 477 Page file usage. The PC is calm and the rendering is cool.

Grazie

Comments

Steve Mann wrote on 10/1/2005, 1:58 AM
Before anybody asks the question, I am informed that these Maxtor f/w cannot be formatted to NTFS."

I can't imagine why not. Have you tried formatting it?
Chienworks wrote on 10/1/2005, 4:56 AM
The easiest way to chop an AVI file into 4GB chunks for FAT32 is to render it to a FAT32 drive. Vegas will automagically split the file in 4GB blocks with sequential numbers added to the file name when you do this.

Unfortunately i don't know of any simple solution for MPEG rendering other than to guess and create your own loop regions.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/1/2005, 9:33 AM
I would also expect that you can format these as NTFS. Try it sometime, when they're empty between projects. Of course, they'll no longer work with 95/98/ME computers.
Grazie wrote on 10/1/2005, 10:03 AM
n19093 - "I can't imagine why not. Have you tried formatting it?" - I'll try and dig out the info.


Chienworks - Oh yeah. that is exactly what I did!


JM - "I would also expect that you can format these as NTFS." . . well, I kinda remember that once USED as FAT32 I could Format to NTFS. Well, I am between projects. I'm just a wooze when it comes to "loosing" or messy up HDs . ..

Oh yes . . MPEG2 rendering .. I'm doing it another way. For the moment!

Grazie
RichMacDonald wrote on 10/1/2005, 3:11 PM
>is there a way to chop a rendered AVI into FAT32 chunks?

WinRar.
Serena wrote on 10/1/2005, 7:54 PM
Grazie,
I've got 3 of those Maxtors and they're very happy little (300GB) NTFS formatted drives. In fact when you first hook them up the software asks you whether you prefer to change from the default FAT32 to NTFS. So I reckon that should be your immediate action (since you've got it empty -- or you did when you last spoke).

Serena
MH_Stevens wrote on 10/1/2005, 8:24 PM
Grazie:

My 300mb Matrox FW drive is formatted NTSC, that's how it should be now. Fat32 is best forgotten. Back up them and reformat them one by one and I think you will be happy.
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/1/2005, 8:32 PM
:-) Michael,
I *hope* you meant your drives are formatted NTFS...as I don't want to have to reformat my drives for PAL when I go overseas.
Grazie wrote on 10/2/2005, 2:09 AM
Formatting now. MAXTOR hasn't burst into flames. I stayed with the "Default" allocation unit size. . . . .

Sometimes just jumping in has an advantage - yeah?

G
farss wrote on 10/2/2005, 6:04 AM
To be honest I never understand why these Maxtor things get bought, it's a lot cheaper to roll your own. The only thing you miss out on is the One Touch backup, yawn!
Speaking of which Netgear have a very cheap SAN box, AUD 192 but you have to add your own drives, box only holds 2 drives but you can put as many boxes on your network as you like, you do need a DHCP server for it to work.
Only downside I can see is network connection is only 100Mb.
Bob.
Grazie wrote on 10/2/2005, 8:03 AM
"To be honest " too . . I aint got your IT savvy.

"I never understand why these Maxtor things get bought, it's a lot cheaper to roll your own. The only thing you miss out on is the One Touch backup, yawn!" . . . maybe I don't have the abilities to "roll my own" as you do . .

Thanks Bob,

Grazie
Serena wrote on 10/2/2005, 6:14 PM
Bob, those MAXTORs come in a box and you just plug 'em in. Each time I've bought one I've noted that they're expensive and I don't need the 'one-touch' button and each has its own power supply and nice case and I know adding HDs is child's play but I also know that if something doesn't work I'll be relying on trial and error rather than knowledge to fix it. There. A breathless admission!
Serena
Grazie wrote on 10/3/2005, 12:21 PM
Formatted as NTFS now! Worked like a charm! BIG files .. . thakns for easing me towards this Guys.

Grazie
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 10/3/2005, 2:44 PM
Grazie, there is a dos command called CONVERT that will convert fat 32 files with data into NTFS

Type cmd on the Run command and type HELP it will tell you the Commands for CONVERT.