Can't move files to Hard Drive

Trying to transfer files from my downloads folder to my WD Passport Essential I get the "File to large for format" mesage. The external drive is formated is DOS. I have tried Exfat and it works but the problem I have is I can't hook up the drive to my media center! The WD media doesn't even see the drive. I looked at the "get info" on the file and it's not locked it is a large file but I have checked it on a friend Mac and it works on his no problem! We both are running 10.7.2? Seems this problem started when I upgraded to lion? Didn't have a prob with leopard.

A quote from your post; "The WD TV Live Hub Media Center, WD TV Live Streaming Media Player,WD TV Live (WDBAAx0000NBK) HD Media Player, WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player, and the WD TV HD Media Player (Gen 2) supports NTFS, FAT32, HFS and HFS+ file systems for media playback. This is a direct quote from WD support site. So it supports HFS & HFS+."
They are saying it supports HFS+ but that means only if you format it as HFS+. No disk drive is capable of working with all of those formats at the same time. It is impossible.
Allan

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