superjack Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 wonder if someone can help me. I've got a couple of movies I want to transfer to my external hard drive, both about 6.5Gb, but when I try to move them to the hard drive, I get the same message everytime, that the file size is too large. is there something stupid I am missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrent Jambo Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Possibly your hdd is fat 32 ?? need to format it from that to ntfs for it to recognise files above 4gb ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 Possibly your hdd is fat 32 ?? need to format it from that to ntfs for it to recognise files above 4gb ?aye/ your right, fat 32. how do I go about formatting to ntfs, is this easy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasselhoff Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Right click on drive and click format. Can do quick format in ntfs. Make sure you have everything off it you want as you will lose it all. Assuming you are on windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superjack Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Right click on drive and click format. Can do quick format in ntfs. Make sure you have everything off it you want as you will lose it all. Assuming you are on windowsCheers for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stone rose Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 If you format it like that, can you still put the stuff you originally had on it, back on? or will these now be the wrong format? (had similar issues with a couple of files) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gentleman Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 If you format it like that, can you still put the stuff you originally had on it, back on? or will these now be the wrong format? (had similar issues with a couple of files) Shouldn't be a problem. Files themselves have no inherent formatting properties. What you've experienced raises an interesting issue.............many of the external USB hard drives on sale (1TB/2TB/whatever) come pre-formatted in FAT32 ? individual file size limit, 4GB. I've no idea why; FAT32 went the way of the dodo with Windows 98! ps. Found the (apparent) answer: http://www.howtogeek.com/177529/htg-explains-why-are-removable-drives-still-using-fat32-instead-of-ntfs/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stone rose Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Ahh thanks, read the link and makes sense, learn something new everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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