I Can’t send a ISO file to a Seagate Hard drive. External?

July 30, 2010 in seagate external hard drive | Comments (2)

I have to different External Hard Drives Seagate and the ISO files are 4 gigs in size DVD . What is the problem and what can be done to get the file as a ISO image to the drive?
No I am trying to copy the ISO Image file from my Laptop c hard drive to an external hard drive. USB.
And I have two different Seagate external hard drives that I am trying. Both will not let me do so!
The drive is external and does not have a cd-rom. It is a SEAGATE. It will not let me transfer ISO files that are not corrupted in any way. The files are 4.7 gigs and are from the c drive to the external, in a ISO DVD ready to burn file. Just trying to back it up. I can’t.

Two things:

First, if your drives’ File Allocation format are different, you may have trouble copying from one drive to the other. (NTFS vs FAT32 vs FAT). You will be able to see the file allocation type by right clicking on the drive and viewing their properties (look for File System:)

What I suggest is you try to burn the ISO image unto a DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW then go and transfer it to the other drive – such discs are cheap anyway.

Second, the ISO file may be corrupted. As some are, they wont let you modify or the very least move them. If you got it from somewhere, try obtaining it again.

Hope it helps, if you could add updates on this please do so.

2 Responses to “I Can’t send a ISO file to a Seagate Hard drive. External?”

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  1. Comment by jdinvis — July 30, 2010 at 6:10 pm  

    What exactly is happening? Are you trying to copy directly from one external HDD to the other? If you are, try copying to your internal HDD first…and then back out again to the other.
    Need more info tho!
    References :

  2. Comment by Adrian — July 30, 2010 at 6:47 pm  

    Two things:

    First, if your drives’ File Allocation format are different, you may have trouble copying from one drive to the other. (NTFS vs FAT32 vs FAT). You will be able to see the file allocation type by right clicking on the drive and viewing their properties (look for File System:)

    What I suggest is you try to burn the ISO image unto a DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW then go and transfer it to the other drive – such discs are cheap anyway.

    Second, the ISO file may be corrupted. As some are, they wont let you modify or the very least move them. If you got it from somewhere, try obtaining it again.

    Hope it helps, if you could add updates on this please do so.
    References :

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