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External Hard Drive Size Error

Posted: 04-07-2007, 06:32 AM
darkblade25
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I have a Netdisk external hard drive with around 55 gigs of free space. In
vista, I tried to copy over a 4 gig file to the external hard drive. It then
gives me an error saying that the file is too large for the destination file
system. I have over 55 gigs and when I tried to copy 4 gig worth of files on
my other computer, which is running xp, it works fine. Somebody please help
me.
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Noozer
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Re: External Hard Drive Size Error
Posted: 04-07-2007, 08:06 AM

"darkblade25" <darkblade25@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Netdisk external hard drive with around 55 gigs of free space. In
> vista, I tried to copy over a 4 gig file to the external hard drive. It
> then
> gives me an error saying that the file is too large for the destination
> file
> system. I have over 55 gigs and when I tried to copy 4 gig worth of files
> on
> my other computer, which is running xp, it works fine. Somebody please
> help
> me.
Sounds like the drive is formatted FAT32. Try formatting it using NTFS
instead.


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Re: External Hard Drive Size Error
Posted: 04-08-2007, 09:02 AM
"darkblade25" <darkblade25@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>I have a Netdisk external hard drive with around 55 gigs of free space. In
> vista, I tried to copy over a 4 gig file to the external hard drive. It
> then
> gives me an error saying that the file is too large for the destination
> file
> system. I have over 55 gigs and when I tried to copy 4 gig worth of files
> on
> my other computer, which is running xp, it works fine. Somebody please
> help
> me.
Is the drive formatted to FAT32? If so that has a size limit per file of
4GB. You can convert the drive non destructively to NTFS. Note, you should
make sure there is a backup of the data on the drive. Although the
conversion normally goes fine, problems can occur. See this link for info
on how to do it.

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

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