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Files Larger Than 4GB Are Not Transferring To Hard Drive?

Super User Asked by ez-riding on December 25, 2021

Moving things from my laptop to a 1TB hard drive. Stops at any file larger than 4GB saying that that there isn’t enough space on the hard drive.

I checked the formatting on my hard drive and it is NTFS.
I thought this was only a problem with FAT32 drives?

I’m running Windows 7 x64

Any help is greatly appreciated.

3 Answers

There is no need to format hard disk just for one file. Use winrar to break file into small parts and copy them into hard disk. When you want to use this file just extract the first one and your file will be easly transfer.

Answered by zahid.3D artist on December 25, 2021

Firstly I'm going to second what vembutech advises. I have seen a couple of situations where formatting once more solved issues not unlike yours. If that doesn't work:

  • Are you using 3rd party software to move files? For example, Explorer++, Cubic Explorer, MultiCommander? If so, try moving the files using Microsoft's built in Windows Explorer.

  • It is also possible that the real-time scanning feature of your antivirus or antimalware software trips over when a move-in-progress gets past the 4GB mark. Try temporarily disabling all real-time scanning/services and try move the files again.

The 4GB limit is something I have to deal with all the time in my own coding projects (it actually takes a fair bit of understanding and care) and I wouldn't be surprised if some commercial software is not up to par in that respect.

Answered by misha256 on December 25, 2021

From the information you have posted I suspect that the drive might not formatted properly. To check the file system of the volume, open command prompt run the command open Diskpartand then run list volume, this command will show you the files system of the volume. If the volume is NTFS try to format the drive once again and try to copy the files.

Answered by vembutech on December 25, 2021

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