Why Can't I Move Large Files?

[Proximity Motorsport]

Hi Everyone,

I have a laptop with a partitioned HDD that has Local Disk C (29.9GB, with 5.29GB free) this has Windows 7 installed, D Drive (156GB, with 27.6gb free)

D drive has some larger files such as dvd and blue rays, ranging from 4-8gb each. I cannot transfer them from D Drive to my external hdd's. One has 850gb free and the other has 71gb. When I try to move a file it says "The file 'xxxxxxx.mkv' is too large for the destination file system." And the file is only 8.71gb.

Can anyone please help me out?? I Need to get these files off the laptop and onto the external hdd's.

thanks

[Yts]

Hi Everyone,

I have a laptop with a partitioned HDD that has Local Disk C (29.9GB, with 5.29GB free) this has Windows 7 installed, D Drive (156GB, with 27.6gb free)

D drive has some larger files such as dvd and blue rays, ranging from 4-8gb each. I cannot transfer them from D Drive to my external hdd's. One has 850gb free and the other has 71gb. When I try to move a file it says "The file 'xxxxxxx.mkv' is too large for the destination file system." And the file is only 8.71gb.

Can anyone please help me out?? I Need to get these files off the laptop and onto the external hdd's.

thanks

have you formatted your hard drive?, its a common problem when you purchase a external HDD that when you buy it it is only setup on minimal software for small file storage, for it to allow bigger transfers you need to format you HDD, just go into setting click format may take an hour or so then you should be right. let me know if that doesnt work

yt

[Scottydoo]

I'm no expert but it might be your file system type. I had the same problem with a USB stick I had.

Is the External HDD in FAT32? Pretty sure FAT32 can only transfer files up to 4gb at a time. Needs to be NTFS to transfer bigger files. But be careful cause NTFS has problems with Macs if you plan on using the HDD on a Mac. Maybe just google your problem?

If you dont want to convert it you could try moving the DVD's over to the Ext HDD in smaller segments ie <4gb at a time. But that would be annoying

[Proximity Motorsport]

yeah I just checked and the HDD is fat32.... that sucks, takes ages to transfer 110gb off it via usb

thanks for the help, I did google it but I didnt understand EFS they were talking about ... I got way to confused

[R31Nismoid]

Just convert the drive to NTFS via Formatting it.

My Computer

Manage

Disk Management

And then right click on the eternal if it shows up and away you go

[ElMatto]

I did that, got a 1TB ex hdd and transferred all my movies and tv shows onto it off all my small ones, about 700gb worth, then when i went to do my games realised i forgot to format it.

[Cadavre]

Pretty sure you can convert to ntfs without formating the drive in MS MMC, you used to be able to. It does suck pretty much all USB drives come FAT32 out of the box for compatibility.