I have a USB 500GB drive that arrived pre-formatted to FAT32. I did not realise this until I wanted to store a file on it that is over 4GB and it told me that there was ‘insufficient space’. I have tried to convert it to NTFS using the convert e: /fs:ntfs (where ‘e’ is the drive letter) but to no avail. It asked me to run chkdsk, which I have but to no avail. I have also tried the ‘disk cleanup’ option but that hasn’t helped either. Apparently it has about 35k in ‘dirty bits’ (i.e. bad sectors). My system is XP Pro but the drive I am referring to has no system files on it whatsoever – it is used purely for data storage (music, videos, downloaded software in uninstalled state, documents, etc)
Is there a way around this?
Thanks
