Error Code -1309 when copying large file

I'm trying to back up a large (about 5.5GB) video (.mkv) file on to my external hard drive. It copies completely but once it is finished I get a message saying "Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (Error Code -1309)"

I've searched for Error Code -1309 which always leads to Error Code -36, which sounds like a similar error but none of those solutions have solved the problem.

The video works when run from the internal hard disk, so the file isn't corrupted.
I can't cut the video into smaller pieces because I don't have video editing software that runs .mkv

I have a MacBook (Late 2006) MA699xx/A with Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,

MA699 (Late 2006), Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger

Posted on Mar 31, 2010 8:26 AM

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Apr 1, 2010 6:36 AM in response to s01705661

It seems that the drive is formatted for FAT32.
If I was to reformat the drive for NTFS would it fix the problem and would my OS X 10.4.11 be able to write to a NTFS formatted drive? From what I've read OS X 10.4 can only read from NTFS.

If not does anyone know a good (preferably free) program for converting or resizing .MKV files?

Thanks for your help so far...

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Error Code -1309 when copying large file

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