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Highlander

Help !!!

I have NTFS partition and I cant save any file larger than 2 GB.
As I remember, NTFS partition should be able to save files as big as free
space on the hard drive.

What can I do to enable that?
 
Highlander said:
Help !!!

I have NTFS partition and I cant save any file larger than 2 GB.
As I remember, NTFS partition should be able to save files as big as free
space on the hard drive.

What can I do to enable that?
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you are correct.... fat32 has a 2gig limitation


do you get any type of error message?
 
Help !!!

I have NTFS partition and I cant save any file larger than 2 GB.
As I remember, NTFS partition should be able to save files as big as free
space on the hard drive.

What can I do to enable that?
Click to expand...

What operating system?

What exactly were you trying to do in order to create
this >2GB file?

Are you sure that it's NTFS?
 
Highlander said:
I have NTFS partition and I cant save any file larger than 2 GB.
As I remember, NTFS partition should be able to save files as big as free
space on the hard drive.

What can I do to enable that?
Click to expand...
Update your application. NTFS may be capable of larger files but if the app
uses 32 bit signed integer for address manipulation (2^31=2GB) then it
itself is the limiting factor.
 
philo said:
i goofed!


i mean to say the size limit for a file in fat32 is 4 gigs
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Actually, according to the gospel of Microsoft, the maximum FAT32
file size is 4GB minus 2 bytes. If you know where the 2 bytes went,
please let me know. ;)

Non Win32 applications must use Int 21 Funct 6Ch, specifying the
EXTENDED-SIZE flag. If they do not, they cannot open a file larger
than 2GB minus 1 byte. Otherwise they will return ACCESS_DENIED.

Virg Wall
 
Actually, according to the gospel of Microsoft, the maximum FAT32
file size is 4GB minus 2 bytes. If you know where the 2 bytes went,
please let me know. ;)
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converted to $$$$ and goes right into Bill Gates bank account !!!!
 
I have NTFS partition and I cant save any file larger than 2 GB.
As I remember, NTFS partition should be able to save files
as big as free space on the hard drive.
What can I do to enable that?
Click to expand...

It's standard, you don't have to enable that.
I don't think you are using NTFS.
 
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