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Bob Campbell (Visitor)

video file Can't Move Large Video File (5.24GB) to External Drive

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John Inzer (Visitor)

O:video file Can't Move Large Video File (5.24GB) to External Drive

I have a video on my C drive that I would like to move to my external drive but when I try to do this I get a message saying file is too large for the destination file system . The external drive is 120GB, has lots of room on it, and I have moved other smaller videos to it. Could anyone expand on what this may mean, besides the obvious, and if there is anyway around it. Thanks, ===================================== Just a thought but if the external drive is FAT32...it may help to convert it to NTFS. Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas: Proceed at your own risk....... Why Can't I Copy a Large File Despite Having Larger Free Space? http://www.cknow.com/faqs/Why/CantCopyLargeFile.html Convert a FAT32 Disk to NTFS in Windows Vista http://news.softpedia.com/news/Convert-a-FAT32-Disk-to-NTFS-in-Window...

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From: Bob Campbell < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it \| \| Sounds like the drive is formatted as FAT32. FAT32 has a 4GB file size \| limit. Copy everything off of it and reformat it as NTFS. You don't have to move data off the drive and reformat. Just use the CONVERT.EXE utility on that drive to convert it from FAT32 to NTFS.

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\| \| Sounds like the drive is formatted as FAT32. FAT32 has a 4GB file size \| limit. Copy everything off of it and reformat it as NTFS. You don't have to move data off the drive and reformat. Just use the CONVERT.EXE utility on that drive to convert it from FAT32 to NTFS.

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David H. Lipman (Visitor)

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From: kookieman < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it \| convert yields 512 byte clusters, which is not good for fragmentation, \| especially if the average file sizes are large. 4KB clusters would be far \| better with large files.. if they are all that size, he could go higher. \| Good point.

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kookieman (Visitor)

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I appreciate and understand your answers but being a bit of a novice I think I'll just leave my video on the C drive. I've got too much stuff on the external drive to start fooling around with it....ie. formatting etc. Thanks again, bj