Writing large files to new EXT. HD

[mad1]

I have a new USB EXT hard drive, Western Digital "My Book". I am trying to backup a large ,80 GB , file to this drive. I get an error message stating that I need more space. The drive has 450 GB free space. I noticed thru IMGBURN,
I 12:23:59 ImgBurn Version 2.4.1.0 started!
I 12:23:59 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)
I 12:23:59 Total Physical Memory: 1,048,048 KB - Available: 571,496 KB
W 12:23:59 Drive G:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size.
I 12:24:00 Initialising SPTI...
I 12:24:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 12:24:00 Found 1 CD-RW and 1 DVD+RW!

How can I change this to accept larger files?

[Keymaker]

It sounds like the drive is using a FAT partition table. Which means you need to format the drive with NTFS. Unless the drive is NTFS..

Control PAnel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Storage | Disk Management. Right click the drive to format.

Make sure you select the right hard drive!

[mad1]

Originally Posted by Keymaker

It sounds like the drive is using a FAT partition table. Which means you need to format the drive with NTFS. Unless the drive is NTFS..

Control PAnel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Storage | Disk Management. Right click the drive to format.

Make sure you select the right hard drive!

That was the choice of Western Digital. Not sure why Fat32 would be a good option, with ever increasing file sizes this would be useless?As soon as my transfer is completed I will reformat and then try the transfer again. One problem down two to go.

Thanks