Cannot move >5GB file to external

[r3n3r4d3]

Hi all

i hope i'm putting this in the right thread, but yea so i bought a western digital 640 external harddrive. I moved all my files there and it was fine, but i cant seem to move two of my files that are bigger than 5GB. it says the external does not have enough space.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Btw: if this helps File System is FAT32

 

[aaronkupen]

Well if it doesn't have enough space than that is your problem.

Most likely it's due to the fact that FAT32 doesn't support files of that size.

 

[carnageX]

Hi all

Btw: if this helps File System is FAT32

That would be your problem there. You can't move files larger than 2GB I believe, onto a FAT32 file system. Has to be NTFS.

 

[r3n3r4d3]

what can i do to fix this problem?

 

[Hefemeister]

Reformat the external as ntfs. Keeping in mind this will erase everything currently on the drive. Then copy everything over again.

 

[patonb]

Or, partion it and only reformat the new partion, but it'll depend on the fullness.

 

[r3n3r4d3]

when i reformat its either NTFS or ExFAT which one should i choose? and wahts the allocation size?

Btw, i'm using it as storage and i've used 300gb of it already, hope this helps to choose allocation unit size

Thanks alot in advance

 

[gurusan]

you realize that when you reformat you lose everything on the drive, right?

 

[r3n3r4d3]

yea i know i copied everything back to my desktop already cause the point i'm doing this is to reformat my computer since it so slow, so right now i gotta deal with the external first

Now, should i choose NTFS or ExFAT? and what allocation unit size?

Thanks!

 

[gurusan]

NTFS, and just choose the default size. 4096 i believe