VS11+ and ADS Capture Wizard

[virg2673]

Using VS11+ now, but still use ADS Capture Wizard for the capture of VHS tapes that are less that 2 hours long and contain our family home movies. Before starting my capture process, I click on the ADS Recording Options and then select recording time to be 3 hours. My problem is that my system will only capture about the first 3/4 of the full VHS tape.
After it stops, it shows that my captured mpeg movie file is exactly 4,194,272 KB. I then have to repeat the capture process for the last half of the VHS tape. Not a show stopper, but a real pain in the tail. Tried a search here on the Forum, but didn't find anything.
Any suggestions?

[tyamada]

Your hard drive is probably using FAT32 Flie system, to find out what file system your system is using, right click on MY Computer on the desktop and pick Manage, once in Computer Management, click on Disk Management. On the right side there will be information on your hard drive(s). If it says FAT32 that is your problem. FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB.

To convert your file system to NTFS go to a Command Prompt and type convert /? to get the parameters to convert your file system.

Convert C:/FS:NTFS /V /NoSecurity /X

I've converted quite a few drives from FAT32 to NTFS without loss of data.

[Ken Berry]

As have I... I have found, in particular, that external hard disk drives more often than not come formatted using FAT32 by default. This makes them usable with Macs as well as PCs since Macs apparently can't "see" NTFS... But I agree totally that you can change FAT32 to NTFS without losing any other data already stored on the disk.

[virg2673]

Thanks to both tyamada and Ken Berry. Your explanations were very clear and helpful. Checked my Windows XP system and the C drive is NTFS, but the external drive is in fact FAT32 just as you suspected. Based on your encouragement, I will convert my external drive to NTFS as soon as I can make sure that I know how to implement the conversion.
Thanks again.