Lacie 160GB porsche drive won't take large files.

Slightly OT but...
I bought a 160GB lacie porsche drive for a client recently as he has a 90GB video project folder on my media drive, and i needed to free up space.
When i try to drag the folder from the media drive onto the external it gets to about 5GB's and packs up saying sorry you can't do this.
It cost me a hundred quid and i tried to take it back but they say its fine, i just need to use the supplied software. The Lacie manual specifically states i don't need the software installed but even with it installed i can't work out what's gong on.
They say i can return it but i'm only going to get 70% of it's value, having previously said, "just bring it back if you're not happy.
Naturally i'm not happy.
Any ideas how i get this thing to do what i bought it for?
All i want to do is drag a folder onto it FFS!
Thanks
Dom

Hi,
is your client using a Mac or a Windows PC ?
If Mac:
It sounds like the LaCie came preformated for use with Windows using the FAT32 file system (called MS-DOS in OSX Disk Utility).
FAT32 has a file size limitation for single files of 4GB.
Check with Disk Utility to see if I am assuming right.
If so, use Disk Utility to erase the LaCie HD and reformat it using 'Mac OS Extended (journaled)' as file system.
Be aware that doing this will erase everything that is on the LaCie right now !
If Windows PC:
Only choice for file system to go (no size limitation) is NTFS.
Sadly OSX can not write to NTFS volumes nor create them without third-party apps.
One solution is MacFuse http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Stefan

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