File bigger than 4 GB in a FAT patiton

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You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this
is one byte less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition.
 
Carey said:
No, it is a limitation of the FAT32 file system.
Click to expand...

You might as well ask the OP if the computer will fit through the
nearest open window so he can toss it out.

Why don't you try to offer some real help for a change, Carey? Why
couldn't you tell the OP to look into converting to NTFS? Such as:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Sounds crazy, but it JUST MIGHT WORK!

I am truly amazed that you are still an MVP! You're about as helpful as
a sharp stick in the eye most of the time. I will admit that
occaisionally you shock the h3ll out of me and actually display some
reading comprehension skills, although that's very rare. Most of the
time all I see you reply with are copy-pasted and barely related (if at
all) M$ KB links.

What, does M$ award MVP status based soley upon sheer volume of replies
that contain links to M$ KB urls based on a few keywords (and we all
know how futile THAT can be with M$ KB searches!), regardless of content
applicable to OP questions or whether they were ACTUALLY HELPFUL? Sh1t.
I can do THAT!

Maybe if I repost this a hundred times I'll get to be an MVP, too!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310525&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307881&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322275&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304841&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329145&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810142&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;836165&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300030&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317255&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323563&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303584&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298609&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303582&Product=winxp

Want more?

http://support.microsoft.com/search...L&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=&InCC=on

LOL!

Steve
 
Because in an earlier post, in a different newsgroup,
the same OP asked:

"I'm trying to send a 20GB win media file to another PC running ME".

Windows ME cannot run on a NTFS file system.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

:
|
| You might as well ask the OP if the computer will fit through the
| nearest open window so he can toss it out.
|
| Why don't you try to offer some real help for a change, Carey? Why
| couldn't you tell the OP to look into converting to NTFS? Such as:
|
| http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php
|
| Sounds crazy, but it JUST MIGHT WORK!
|
| I am truly amazed that you are still an MVP! You're about as helpful as
| a sharp stick in the eye most of the time. I will admit that
| occaisionally you shock the h3ll out of me and actually display some
| reading comprehension skills, although that's very rare. Most of the
| time all I see you reply with are copy-pasted and barely related (if at
| all) M$ KB links.
|
| What, does M$ award MVP status based soley upon sheer volume of replies
| that contain links to M$ KB urls based on a few keywords (and we all
| know how futile THAT can be with M$ KB searches!), regardless of content
| applicable to OP questions or whether they were ACTUALLY HELPFUL? Sh1t.
| I can do THAT!
|
| Maybe if I repost this a hundred times I'll get to be an MVP, too!
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310525&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307881&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322275&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304841&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329145&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810142&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;836165&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300030&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317255&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323563&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303584&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298609&Product=winxp
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303582&Product=winxp
|
| Want more?
|
|
http://support.microsoft.com/search...L&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=&InCC=on
|
| LOL!
|
| Steve
|
 
Sounds like the OP needs about 5 DVD-Rs or 40 CD-Rs unless
the file(s) can be heavily compressed. Maybe IZARC would be
useful.

Or a hosted website with a lot of bandwidth.


message | Because in an earlier post, in a different newsgroup,
| the same OP asked:
|
| "I'm trying to send a 20GB win media file to another PC
running ME".
|
| Windows ME cannot run on a NTFS file system.
|
| --
| Carey Frisch
| Microsoft MVP
| Windows XP - Shell/User
|
| Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
|
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
|
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| "Steve N." wrote:
||
|| You might as well ask the OP if the computer will fit
through the
|| nearest open window so he can toss it out.
||
|| Why don't you try to offer some real help for a change,
Carey? Why
|| couldn't you tell the OP to look into converting to NTFS?
Such as:
||
|| http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php
||
|| Sounds crazy, but it JUST MIGHT WORK!
||
|| I am truly amazed that you are still an MVP! You're about
as helpful as
|| a sharp stick in the eye most of the time. I will admit
that
|| occaisionally you shock the h3ll out of me and actually
display some
|| reading comprehension skills, although that's very rare.
Most of the
|| time all I see you reply with are copy-pasted and barely
related (if at
|| all) M$ KB links.
||
|| What, does M$ award MVP status based soley upon sheer
volume of replies
|| that contain links to M$ KB urls based on a few keywords
(and we all
|| know how futile THAT can be with M$ KB searches!),
regardless of content
|| applicable to OP questions or whether they were ACTUALLY
HELPFUL? Sh1t.
|| I can do THAT!
||
|| Maybe if I repost this a hundred times I'll get to be an
MVP, too!
||
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310525&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307881&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322275&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304841&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329145&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810142&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;836165&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300030&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317255&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323563&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303584&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298609&Product=winxp
||
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303582&Product=winxp
||
|| Want more?
||
||
|
http://support.microsoft.com/search...L&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=&InCC=on
||
|| LOL!
||
|| Steve
||
|
 
Sounds like the OP needs about 5 DVD-Rs or 40 CD-Rs unless
the file(s) can be heavily compressed. Maybe IZARC would be
useful.
Click to expand...

Better yet, use another HD and carry/send IT to the other person.
 
Carey said:
Because in an earlier post, in a different newsgroup,
the same OP asked:

"I'm trying to send a 20GB win media file to another PC running ME".

Windows ME cannot run on a NTFS file system.
Click to expand...

So, those of us who don't read the "different newsgroup" and know
knothing about the OP's post there or the fact that he/she is dealing
with a WinME issue are supposed to know this automatically or
psychically? Where's my crystal ball?

Is this not a WinXP newsgroup? How many people using WinXP are going to
read your help-lacking response here in and assume they have no options?

What a joke. What a lack of responsibility.

Steve
 
Carey gave a straight answer to a simple question, there's nothing wrong
with that. No further information was requested. Sometimes that's all the
info the poster is looking for. A post like that would have incurred a
similar answer from most people, including myself.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
That Too

message | Trying to steal the thunder from Arnold, "Jim Macklin"
<p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> on Sat, 9 Oct 2004
| 17:19:33 -0500 spoke:
|
| >Sounds like the OP needs about 5 DVD-Rs or 40 CD-Rs
unless
| >the file(s) can be heavily compressed. Maybe IZARC would
be
| >useful.
|
| Better yet, use another HD and carry/send IT to the other
person.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| --
|
| The truth is out there,
|
| but it's not interesting enough for most people.
 
I tend to agree with this. Sometimes the MVP's appear to think others are as
well educated as they supposedly are.

Not always allowing for novices.

Help is great but Short responses do not help much!

I am not knocking the help you guys give but a little more explanation
sometimes would be helpful.

Cheers

Bud
 
Bud said:
I tend to agree with this. Sometimes the MVP's appear to think others are as
well educated as they supposedly are.

Not always allowing for novices.

Help is great but Short responses do not help much!

I am not knocking the help you guys give but a little more explanation
sometimes would be helpful.

Cheers

Bud
Click to expand...

That was my point. In Carey's case he consistentently gives overly
abbreviated answers that are often potentially misleading to novice
readers, fails to address details and more often than not gives
copy-pasted links to KB articles that don't even apply at all to the
questions asked.

Steve
Carey gave a straight answer to a simple question, there's nothing wrong
with that. No further information was requested. Sometimes that's all the
info the poster is looking for. A post like that would have incurred a
similar answer from most people, including myself.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Carey Frisch [ID10T] wrote:


No, it is a limitation of the FAT32 file system.


You might as well ask the OP if the computer will fit through the nearest
open window so he can toss it out.

Why don't you try to offer some real help for a change, Carey? Why
couldn't you tell the OP to look into converting to NTFS? Such as:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Sounds crazy, but it JUST MIGHT WORK!

I am truly amazed that you are still an MVP! You're about as helpful as a
sharp stick in the eye most of the time. I will admit that occaisionally
you shock the h3ll out of me and actually display some reading
comprehension skills, although that's very rare. Most of the time all I
see you reply with are copy-pasted and barely related (if at all) M$ KB
links.

What, does M$ award MVP status based soley upon sheer volume of replies
that contain links to M$ KB urls based on a few keywords (and we all know
how futile THAT can be with M$ KB searches!), regardless of content
applicable to OP questions or whether they were ACTUALLY HELPFUL? Sh1t. I
can do THAT!

Maybe if I repost this a hundred times I'll get to be an MVP, too!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310525&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307881&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322275&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304841&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329145&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810142&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;836165&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300030&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317255&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323563&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303584&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298609&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303582&Product=winxp

Want more?

http://support.microsoft.com/search...L&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=&InCC=on

LOL!

Steve
Click to expand...
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| Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
|
| > Because in an earlier post, in a different newsgroup,
| > the same OP asked:
| >
| > "I'm trying to send a 20GB win media file to another PC
running ME".
| >
| > Windows ME cannot run on a NTFS file system.
| >
|
| So, those of us who don't read the "different newsgroup" and
know
| knothing about the OP's post there or the fact that he/she is
dealing
| with a WinME issue are supposed to know this automatically or
| psychically? Where's my crystal ball?
|
| Is this not a WinXP newsgroup? How many people using WinXP are
going to
| read your help-lacking response here in and assume they have no
options?
|
| What a joke. What a lack of responsibility.
|
| Steve
|

Steve, you do have sort of a point, but the way you're going at
it only makes YOU look more like the problem. Offensive attacks
are seldom positive events. You've forgotten the "walk a mile
...." principle, I think.

Regards,

Pop
 
In
Steve N. said:
You might as well ask the OP if the computer will fit through the
nearest open window so he can toss it out. snipped the accompanying BS

Steve
Click to expand...

Sorry Steve - your attitude would preclude you from being anything more than
the moronic ass that you are.
 
Thank you Steve. My question is related to the use of an external IOMEGA
drive (80 GB) FAT32 partitioned. I use this drive to store files -and I'd
like to write files bigger than 4 GB on it- and to backup my system
(WinXPSP1 NTFS) HD partition with Norton Ghost. I knew the limit of FAT32
and the possibility to convert it in a NTFS fs, but I don't want to do it
because in that case Norton Ghost is unable to run (to write the backup on
that drive). I hoped to find some way to bypass this limit. That's all.
Giovanni
 
The limit remains no matter what program you're using. On the other hand,
I've copied files to NTFS drives using Ghost without any problems.
 

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