I have a DVD with a 4.4GB file. I tried copying it with Windows Explorer and
it says "Not enough disk space to copy". There is 15GB free space on my hard
disk.

So I use Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) to try to copy it onto my hard disk. It
starts and keeps on going. Then it says "No space left on device". However
it did copy 4GB across.

Is it possible to copy a file bigger than 4GB?

Hi Dhruba,

Are you using FAT32 for the file system? If so, 4GB is the upper limit on
file size. This is a limitation of the file system, not the operating
system. For larger than 4GB, you would need to convert to NTFS, which has no
such limitation.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a DVD with a 4.4GB file. I tried copying it with Windows Explorer
>and it says "Not enough disk space to copy". There is 15GB free space on my
>hard disk.
>
> So I use Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) to try to copy it onto my hard disk. It
> starts and keeps on going. Then it says "No space left on device". However
> it did copy 4GB across.
>
> Is it possible to copy a file bigger than 4GB?
>

Right!

The temporary file, created during the copy procedure, maxes out at 4 gig,
even though the DVD can hold a greater amount of information. This
effectively kills the copy process.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Rick Rogers" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi Dhruba,
>
> Are you using FAT32 for the file system? If so, 4GB is the upper limit on
> file size. This is a limitation of the file system, not the operating
> system. For larger than 4GB, you would need to convert to NTFS, which has
> no such limitation.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I have a DVD with a 4.4GB file. I tried copying it with Windows Explorer
>>and it says "Not enough disk space to copy". There is 15GB free space on
>>my hard disk.
>>
>> So I use Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) to try to copy it onto my hard disk. It
>> starts and keeps on going. Then it says "No space left on device".
>> However it did copy 4GB across.
>>
>> Is it possible to copy a file bigger than 4GB?
>>
>