laurentio
4th January 2009, 12:35 AM
When copying giant (greater than 4 gig) files and Virtual Machines and Video and what-not to your fresh new External Hard Drive you might be greeted with this message, or one like it:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/TheDuhFilesTheFileistoolargeforthedestin_133F9/File%20Too%20Large%5B3%5D.png
CAUSE:
This happens when the new external storage drive is formatted as FAT32, which doesn't support files larger than 4 Gb.
SOLUTION:
1) You can either Format the drive, by right clicking the Drive in My Computer and using the Tools tab.
Or, if you already have a bunch of files on it...and can't afford loosing them:
2) Run an Administrator Console (click the Start Menu, type cmd, then right click on the command prompt and click "Run As Administrator") then run:
convert g: /fs:ntfs /nosecurity (make sure you change g with the letter of your external drive) ...and continue your copy, with the crisis averted.
http://support.bicestercomputers.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=92&stc=1&d=1231029254
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/TheDuhFilesTheFileistoolargeforthedestin_133F9/File%20Too%20Large%5B3%5D.png
CAUSE:
This happens when the new external storage drive is formatted as FAT32, which doesn't support files larger than 4 Gb.
SOLUTION:
1) You can either Format the drive, by right clicking the Drive in My Computer and using the Tools tab.
Or, if you already have a bunch of files on it...and can't afford loosing them:
2) Run an Administrator Console (click the Start Menu, type cmd, then right click on the command prompt and click "Run As Administrator") then run:
convert g: /fs:ntfs /nosecurity (make sure you change g with the letter of your external drive) ...and continue your copy, with the crisis averted.
http://support.bicestercomputers.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=92&stc=1&d=1231029254