Hi.
I have an external 500gb HDD with according to vista 279GB free
but when i try to copy a 4.35GB iso file to it vista says it`s will not fit.
I have run scandisk on my exernal and it shows no errors.
What is wrong.
thanks
John.
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Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING
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Maybe the file format the External Drive is in? Meaning that its in FAT32, which can only hold max 4.something gig files. Otherwise, it'll tell you that error which you got. I'm not sure how to get around it, but you could .zip/.rar the iso, and split it into two different files, or reformat the external harddrive using Vista/XP to a NTFS format which can hold bigger than 4.something gig files.
Also, that iso wouldn't happen to be a game would it know? -
FAT32 has a 4.0GB file size limit. You probably need to reformat the external to NTFS.
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Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING
Hi.
Thanks for the help.
You right it`s FAT32
I have plenty of space on my internal HDD to store it, I just could not understand why it would not fit on my external
Thanks
John.
Vista says file to big for external hdd
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Tinderbox (UK), May 8, 2008.