Post: Moving Big Files Need Help
03-04-2015, 07:37 PM #1
The Dreamer
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03-04-2015, 09:53 PM #2
Stunz
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Originally posted by lecs1958 View Post
hey i have 4-5 videos that i need to transfer to a laptop to a 1tb external hardrive it wont let me because there are all bigger than 4 gb each and my my 1tb as been formatted to fat32 theres 500gb left on it
Not too sure sorry, but if it was me doing it, I'd transfer as much as I can in 1 go.
03-04-2015, 10:03 PM #3
network10
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Originally posted by lecs1958 View Post
hey i have 4-5 videos that i need to transfer to a laptop to a 1tb external hardrive it wont let me because there are all bigger than 4 gb each and my my 1tb as been formatted to fat32 theres 500gb left on it


Well you could split the hard drive into 2 partitions, 1 fat32 and 2 ntfs. (I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition to do this for mine)

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03-05-2015, 02:34 AM #4
Cryptic
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Originally posted by lecs1958 View Post
hey i have 4-5 videos that i need to transfer to a laptop to a 1tb external hardrive it wont let me because there are all bigger than 4 gb each and my my 1tb as been formatted to fat32 theres 500gb left on it


Simple fix. FAT32 is your limiter here.

You need to back up everything on the drive that is currently on there. Once you've done that, right click on the drive from My Computer in Windows, and select Format. Format it for NFTS. Once the format is done you'll be able to put your videos on your drive.

The longest parts will be the back up of your files and format.

FAT32 has a limited file size. NFTS doesn't.

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Stunz
03-05-2015, 02:38 AM #5
^^^ what he said
03-07-2015, 08:56 PM #6
Why did you even format the thing to FAT32? just reformat it to NTFS.
03-11-2015, 04:22 PM #7
Yeah NTFS is the solution but you don't need to format it, you can just convert it from FAT32 to NTFS (google it)

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