External HDD problem with large files

Dilbert75 · 13-11-2005 9:53pm #1

Trying to copy some large video capture files (up to 13GB) from my own external HDD to another external HDD via USB2. There's no problem taking the files from my drive (Samsung drive) onto my laptop but when I try to copy them, either together or individually, to the other drive (a Freecom 250Gb drive), it tells me to perform a disk cleanup. This is despite the fact that the Freecom has 160Gb free.

I've got a 4Gb file to copy across without a problem but the 8Gb and the 2x 13Gb capture files won't go across. Any ideas?

decob · 13-11-2005 9:59pm

Dilbert75 wrote:

Trying to copy some large video capture files (up to 13GB) from my own external HDD to another external HDD via USB2. There's no problem taking the files from my drive (Samsung drive) onto my laptop but when I try to copy them, either together or individually, to the other drive (a Freecom 250Gb drive), it tells me to perform a disk cleanup. This is despite the fact that the Freecom has 160Gb free.

I've got a 4Gb file to copy across without a problem but the 8Gb and the 2x 13Gb capture files won't go across. Any ideas?

sounds like your samsung drive is ntfs and the freecom is fat32. max filesize with fat32 is 4gb, so just reformat the drive to ntfs

Dilbert75 · 13-11-2005 10:05pm

That's exactly the case. Didn't realise there was a file size limit with FAT32. Thank you.

External HDD problem with large files

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