i have been backing up my sons wii games and have copied the games from the discs to the computer and burnt the games but i wanted to save them to a portable hard drive as my computer doesnt have enough memory to keep them all on there, and i didnt want to have to delete them all as they take hours to copy them if the copied games get scratched, but every time i try to drag them into the portable hard drive it says my portable hard drive doesnt have enough memory (it has 275gb still) the iso file is a wainrar archive file, can anyone help me with this problem? thanks heaps....
my first guess would be that the portable hard drive has been formatted as FAT32 which only allows for single file sizes up to 4GB
Since wii isos are bigger than 4 gb i bet that is the problem.
Try formatting the hard drive using NTFS and that should take care of your problem.
thanks but i just checked and it is already NTFS, it has an area that says "allocation unit size" would that be where you could maybe change the gb size at all? it can go up to 4096 bytes? not sure if this has anything to do with it though,dont know much about these portable hard drives
I'd reccommend just formatting it real quick again. Use the disc manager inside windows.
Right Click on my computer and choose Manage
Then UNDER storage choose DISC MANAGEMENT
From here you can format the harddrive again. if this doesnt clear up the problem then i would look at trying another hard drive. Maybe that one is bad. Can you copy other files to it? Try something else of equal size. Maybe your backups are corrupt.
how are you backing up the games? I thought it took a special DVD drive to read a wii disc. Do you have one of those. Some LG model i think i read about.
Just browsing through, and you dont format the hard drive in windows cuz wii wont recognise it. Instead Go to disk management and delete the partition on it from there. Dont format but your Hard drive needs to be in Fat32, so get the WBFS Manager 3.0 and format it through there, and its also where you put iso files onto the hard drive with that package. Its what i use and its so so simple even a hamster (with proper training) could use it. There is a link on here in another post somewhere. If not here http://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/
you should run a chkdsk /f <driveletter> on your portable drive, it may not be reporting the correct amount of free diskspace or it may have developed an error, the filesize limit on NTFS is 16Exabytes which is a fookin lot of gigabytes.
17,179,869,184GB ;)
Also the allocation size, is the size of the clusters in which data is broken down into, a 1mb file will be divided into 4096byte clusters when being stored on the drive, when you format a drive it creates empty clusters of the size specified. ntfs needs pretty big clusters because it has to assign security permissions in a secure setup.
chances are the file allocation table is out of sync with the remaining space on the drive, this will occur often with removable media being unplugged when still in use.
