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Rendering to hard drive issues
Some of you may have been following my posts regarding rendering problems. ( Rendering Sony AVC to an internal hard drive on my computer.) The rendering process stopped along the way when large files were rendered. When I checked the computer, the rendering process had stopped and the “quickstart” drive for that drive was opened on the desktop.
After much trial and error experimentation. I found that if I renedered to my c drive, my documents folder all goes well. So I don’t understand why it would not render to my internal hard drive which is a 1 Terrabyte raid drive. The AVC file was 8.5g. Plenty of space.
This morning I attempted to copy and paste this rendered file into that drive and it would not let me. It started and then gave a message such as “drive not there”. I checked it by dragging a very small word document into the drive and it copied fine.
So the problem seems to be that this drive cannot accept large files, and when rendering when it exceeded that limit (whatever it is)it stopped recording.
So any Ideas here.
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4 Replies
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It can’t be tha your terabyte drive is formatted as FAT32, it is limited to 4 gb’s. Use NTFS for unlimited file size.
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[Mark Krueger] ” When I checked the computer, the rendering process had stopped and the “quickstart” drive for that drive was opened on the desktop.”
Is that a “Green” drive? It may have gone offline during the “Render As”.
Steve Mann
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I agree it may be shutting off or it’s formatted in Fat32. Go inside your Control Panel, double click on “Power Options”. Click on the “Power Schemes” Tab. Set your power schemes to “Always on” and your “Turn off hard disks” to “Never”, to fix the first problem. To see what that hard drive is actually formatted as, go into the Control Panel again and double click on “Administrative Tools”. Double click on “Computer Management”. In the left panel single click on “Disk Management”. In the right panel scroll down to the drive in question. Verify it’s formatted in NTFS. If it is, then that’s NOT the problem. These instructions will be slightly different in Windows 7, but should be enough to get you there. Let’s me know if that resolved your issue?
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I finally got the issue resolved. Thanks for all your input. The fact of the matter was that the drive was going bad. I had the drive replaced and all is well! Thanks again.
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