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Title: External Hard disk Problem
Post by: Freaked12 on June 16, 2010, 02:04:28 pm

I have sea gate FreeAgent drive with a total space of 232 gb..

I like collecting movies and American drama series and i have filled up 201 gb of the hard disk.

Problem is it is in ntfs format.

The Dvd or Tv or ps3 cannot detect this hard drive so i have to copy the movie to a smaller usb so i could watch it on tv.

Any way i could change the format of hard drive without erasing all the existing data?

Title: Re: External Hard disk Problem
Post by: DrEvil on June 16, 2010, 05:45:17 pm

I don't think its possible. You have to format the hard drive for that.

Title: Re: External Hard disk Problem
Post by: Freaked12 on June 16, 2010, 05:46:07 pm

Quote from: DrEvil on June 16, 2010, 05:45:17 pm

I don't think its possible. You have to format the hard drive for that.

where will i store this data ..
my computer will crash

Title: Re: External Hard disk Problem
Post by: DrEvil on June 16, 2010, 05:51:32 pm

Quote from: Arsenal<3 on June 16, 2010, 05:46:07 pm

where will i store this data ..
my computer will crash

I suggest you that copy the important data in your computer or in some friends computer and then format the drive. In this way you won't lose any data.