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Cannot transfer files that are greater than 4GB
HI i have a WD 500Gb hd .i cannot transfer files that are greater than 4GB from the computer to the external 500gb hd .it says not enough free disk space. i have 200 gb free. i tried doing disk cleanup .why is this happening? .what is the solution ?
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Jul 09, 2009
- i tried clering space and cut n paste it still doesnt work.what could be the issue?Jul 10, 2009
- it is formated in FAT32.the file i'm trying to transfer is a single 4.3Gb iso file .Jul 10, 2009
- Can i do that without losing the data in the hd?Best Solution
posted on Jul 09, 2009
The lack of free space iis on your internal HD not the external. Whenever transferring files from one drive to another, you are acturally making a copy of the file to be transferred and sending the copy to the new drive. If your internal HD is nearly full, you can try to Cut and Paste the files to the external, or clear up more space on your internal b/4 tryiing to move the bigger files. Best of luck.
Greg
Greg
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Jul 09, 2009
- Has the external drive been formatted in FAT32 or NTSF?Jul 10, 2009
- Windows can't handle files larger than 4GB in FAT32. You will need to format your external to NTSF in order to enable larger file size transfers.Jul 10, 2009
- Unfortunately no; if this is an issue, you can partition the external and formate the new partiion in NTSF. Then migrate the FAT32 files over and you can safely reformat the FAT32 partition. Otherwise, the fastest way would be to just reformat the whole external.Yes
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Solution #2
posted on Oct 23, 2009
Download the P2P program Soulseek. Share the folder that contains the file you want to transfer. Set your download folder on the external drive. Add youself to your user list. Browse your own files. Download the file file from yourself. Worked for me.
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Oct 23, 2009
- nevermind. I'm dumb. I thought the problem was just in the transfer and answered while slsk was still downloading. my bad.Yes
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