cant copy single large file

[Faio]

Any help will be appreciated.

I have 4.5gb file and I cannot copy it to my usb ext Hard Disk drive,
eventhough my usb ext Hard Disk drive has got enough space.

I can only copy it through a network but this takes time depending on the
network speed.

Any help or this s a limitation on Windows XP or I need to customise few
settings?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Any help will be appreciated.

I have 4.5gb file and I cannot copy it to my usb ext Hard Disk
drive, eventhough my usb ext Hard Disk drive has got enough space.

I can only copy it through a network but this takes time depending
on the network speed.

Any help or this s a limitation on Windows XP or I need to
customise few settings?

This is a limitation of the file system you have chosen to format your
External Hard Disk Drive with - almost certainly.
FAT32? File Size limit of 2GB.

Either format it with NTFS or split your file into smaller than 2GB chunks
and recombine when you get it to where you are moving it.. Or burn it to a
DVD..

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

This is a limitation of the file system you have chosen to format your

External Hard Disk Drive with - almost certainly.
FAT32? File Size limit of 2GB.

You're sure you're not confusing FAT with FAT32? I know FAT is *definitely*
limited to 2GB, but I'm pretty sure I had some files larger than that on a
FAT32 partition...

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Any help will be appreciated.

I have 4.5gb file and I cannot copy it to my usb ext Hard Disk
drive, eventhough my usb ext Hard Disk drive has got enough space.

I can only copy it through a network but this takes time depending
on the network speed.

Any help or this s a limitation on Windows XP or I need to
customise few settings?

This is a limitation of the file system you have chosen to format
your External Hard Disk Drive with - almost certainly.
FAT32? File Size limit of 2GB.

You're sure you're not confusing FAT with FAT32? I know FAT is
*definitely* limited to 2GB, but I'm pretty sure I had some files
larger than that on a FAT32 partition...

Whoops.. My bad. FAT32 is 4GB file size limitation.

More precise:

FAT32 largest file size:
4 GB or 4,294,967,296 bytes minus 2 bytes.

FAT(FAT16) largest file size:
2GB or 2,147,483,648 minus 1 byte.

NTFS theoretical largest file size:
16 exabytes or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes.

The OP is still over the file size limit, so the gist of the answer stands.

Thank you for the correction on the numbers per file system, however.

 

[Stan Brown]

Any help will be appreciated.

One way to get help is to post the exact text of the error message
you received. Then we're less likely to have to guess (as I did,
below) and less likely to guess wrong.

I have 4.5gb file and I cannot copy it to my usb ext Hard Disk drive,
eventhough my usb ext Hard Disk drive has got enough space.

Is the USB external hard drive set up for FAT32? If so, there's a 4GB
limit for files.

 

[Stan Brown]

Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:20:29 -0400 from Homer J. Simpson <root@
127.0.0.1>:

You're sure you're not confusing FAT with FAT32? I know FAT is *definitely*
limited to 2GB, but I'm pretty sure I had some files larger than that on a
FAT32 partition...

FAT16 and FAT32 both have limits of 4 GB minus one byte. See

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/50cd4ffc-1389-423d-9d02-1a898b2eb39f1033.mspx

and scroll down about a quarter of the way.

However, I'm not too sure I believe that page since it also says
FAT32 volumes are limited to 32 GB, and I know from my own computer
that's not true.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

However, I'm not too sure I believe that page since it also says
FAT32 volumes are limited to 32 GB, and I know from my own computer
that's not true.

32GB is the limit at which Windows XP will natively format FAT32 partitions.

 

[BadHead]

FAT32 has a file size limitation of 4Gb, not 2Gb.

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[Stan Brown]

Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:17:29 -0500 from Shenan Stanley

32GB is the limit at which Windows XP will natively format FAT32 partitions.

Interesting. That means Acer must have used something else to format
my two 50 GB partitions. (Since then I've used Partition Magic and I
now have six partitions, none over 32 GB.)

 

[Shenan Stanley]

However, I'm not too sure I believe that page since it also says
FAT32 volumes are limited to 32 GB, and I know from my own
computer that's not true.

32GB is the limit at which Windows XP will natively format FAT32
partitions.

Interesting. That means Acer must have used something else to format
my two 50 GB partitions. (Since then I've used Partition Magic and I
now have six partitions, none over 32 GB.)

If they are FAT32 - yes.
I have many times recommended utilities in the Microsoft Newsgroups to
format external HDDs as FAT32 - but larger than 32GB.

Windows 98 FDISK (boot from a Windows 98 floppy/system diskette) can create
FAT32 partitions up to 120GB I believe.

Knoppix can be used to format FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB.

Here is one utility that does it in Windows XP (For those drives you bought
later - after installing..)
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

A Windows port of the *nix command..
http://www.mager.org/mkdosfs/

 

[Stan Brown]

Thu, 6 Apr 2006 21:41:01 -0500 from Shenan Stanley

If they are FAT32 - yes.

Yes, they were FAT32. And by the time I realized it would be better
to have them a NTFS, I was afraid to convert: I feared programs would
stop working because of file permission issues.