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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.

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    What happens when you attempt to do it.
    – Ramhound
    Nov 20, 2014 at 11:56
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    Have I missed something lol... when the OP attempts to do it... "Stops at any file larger than 4GB saying that that there isn't enough space on the hard drive"... :S
    – Kinnectus
    Nov 20, 2014 at 12:10
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    How are you copying the file across? If you try to copy using XCOPY or the more modern ROBOCOPY does it work (may be useful as a work around)
    – Dave
    Nov 20, 2014 at 12:26
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    It used to be that you could format an NTFS drive such that it had a 4GB limit, but I can't see how you could do it now. Do you have any other external drives attached at the same time?
    – Paul
    Nov 20, 2014 at 20:56
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    Stab in the dark: Your 1TB hard drive is somewhat full already. You have NTFS compression enabled on either the source file/folder or destination drive/folder. Under these conditions a large file may fail to copy. Clue 1: tinyurl.com/mv9wqgu . Clue 2: tinyurl.com/lk8ct93. More info: tinyurl.com/jvldpeb
    – misha256
    Dec 5, 2014 at 12:37

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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.

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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.

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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.

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