fat32 and large files

j0e

my external hdd is formated to fat32 but wont allow me to move files over 4gigs onto it, get the error out of space, i know this is a standard fat32 bug but is there any way around this?

Creamy Goodness

no

only way round it is splitting files or converting it to NTFS.

SLIM19198

zip or rar the files and chose 700mb as filesize of archives?

Jonathan

http://www.filesplitter.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/d8rfilesplitter/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filesplitter/

aidan_walsh

Its also not a bug, its by design.

j0e

i dont get why it should be there by design? especially with a msg telling me not enough space and asking me to free up space. seems a pretty bad design flaw. I have a 4.5gig mkv file

Spear

j0e wrote: »

i dont get why it should be there by design? especially with a msg telling me not enough space and asking me to free up space. seems a pretty bad design flaw. I have a 4.5gig mkv file

What's the biggest number you can fit in 32bits?

Blazer

If u run Vista you can format drives as exFat which is a extended version of Fat to read files over 4gbs..however it's tied down as present to Vista..
I wish other companies..Sony would just start supporting NTFS.
I've lots of mkv files i want to copy to my ps3 and i've to convert them as they're too big first of all to copy over

wasim21k

here is fron NTFS and for FAT system, i think i can not explain better then that.

Spear wrote: »

What's the biggest number you can fit in 32bits?

Nonmonotonic

Think

What's the biggest number you can fit in 32bits?

is a response to the suggestion

seems a pretty bad design flaw

and

fat32 bug

Pay attention class!
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160978.aspx

Clearly too young to remember the A20 handler!

Voodoo2

Yup guys the maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB minus 1 "null" byte (232−1 bytes) - Brings be back to dual booting Win98 and XP when it first came out, I couldnt make use of DVD images I was editing, So i had to put in another HD formatted to NTFS so I could hold ISO's of DVD's.

My suggestion is to back up your external go to my computer right click, Format (you will wipe everything) and select NTFS as our file system your troubles will be gone!!

j0e

yeah i see that the fat32 problem, but that wasnt my qualm with it, it was the fact that windows tells you to free up space on your hdd, which will do nothing to fix the problem had a quick read through the links ty to those who uped them. my external will only work on my router with fat32 SADFACE

Spear

j0e wrote: »

yeah i see that the fat32 problem, but that wasnt my qualm with it, it was the fact that windows tells you to free up space on your hdd, which will do nothing to fix the problem had a quick read through the links ty to those who uped them. my external will only work on my router with fat32 SADFACE

What model router?

j0e

bt home hub v1.5