When the window opens, find the icon that represents the drive that is to be formatted.

Open the file management window in Windows known as 'Windows Explorer' or simply as 'Computer'.

(This action destroys all data currently on that drive at the time, so if any data already on that drive is important, it should first be copied to another storage location.) This is accomplished by performing a FORMAT action on that drive. When this circumstance arises, the problem may be resolved by changing the file system on the drive.

Even if the posted disk capacity sounds to be sufficient, it is the file system that determines the size of a file that can be copied to it. It is these earlier file systems that are not able to handle larger files. It is still common, though, to find disks that have been formatted with the FAT or FAT32 file systems, which were developed earlier than NTFS. The file system that is used on most modern computers is known as NTFS. The issue is one of 'file systems' that are used to prepare a drive for data storage.

The external hard drive, which is to be connected to the target computer, is apparently unable to accommodate a file that resides on the installation DVD. This error has been reported when one is copying a file from one drive, that being the DVD drive, to a portable hard drive as part of a process intended to make the BibleWorks installation files available to a computer that does not have a built-in DVD drive.

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