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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,


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"Beejaysoo" <Beejaysoo@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

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.



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Beejaysoo wrote:

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?

www.cknow.com/faqs/Why/CantCopyLargeFile.html" >www.cknow.com/faqs/Why/CantCopyLargeFile.html



Convert a FAT32 Disk to NTFS in Windows Vista

news.softpedia.com/news/Convert-a-FAT32-Disk-to-NTFS-in-Windows-Vista-51792.shtml" >news.softpedia.com/news/Convert-a-FAT32-Disk-to-NTFS-in-Windows-Vista-51792.shtml



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From: "Bob Campbell" <bob@bob.bob>





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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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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.



"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>wrote in message



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From: "kookieman" <a@bbccd.com>



| 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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Thanks to all,



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

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Good choice. Just split the file into 2 parts and you should be able to

copy it.. if you want to.



"Beejaysoo" <Beejaysoo@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message



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"kookieman" <a@bbccd.com>wrote in message





Usually, but not always.







It's not good for performance in general.







However it's possible to covert to FAT232, *and* endure that you get the

default 4K clusters. Read here: www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm" >www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm

Also note that conversion is a big step, affecting everything on your drive.

When you take such a big step, no matter how unlikely, it is always possible

that something could go wrong. For that reason, it's prudent to make sure

you have a backup of anything you can't afford to lose before beginning.









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