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Originally Posted by oldtimer
I might have learned something today,thank you.
I'll sleep on it. 
But how can this 4 gb file even exist then to "BE COPIED" ?
Thats a pretty long playing movie or recording.
I get 1 1/2 hrs on a 700 MB cd-r.
Someone direct her to a good file spltter.
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My 40 gb hard drive is FAT32 running XP Pro.
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Mary ? Can you play this avi ? Who recorded it ? 
Do you have a dvd burner to burn it to ? |
The file(s) in question are on the internal hard drive, and it must be formatted with NTFS if it's 4 gig or larger. (Or, if if it's an alternative OS, like Linux, it would be RiserFS or one of the UNIX FS)
So, it exists on an NTFS partition, where the only limit to file size is the size of the partition/free space, and trying to copy it to a FAT32 partition will usually give you a "Drive Full" or "Not enough free space" error.
Perhaps Microsoft should have made the error message say, "Trying to copy a file (insert file size here) to a FAT32 partition error. File size for FAT32 must be less than 4 gigabytes.
I'd suggest converting your FAT32 partition(s) to NTFS. NTFS is a journaling file system, so you're much less likely to lose data in the event of a crash, and if you do, it won't nearly be as much . . . and you'll rarely, if ever, have to deal with chkdsk using NTFS since it's usually very good at keeping itself error free. Of course, there are times things get drastic and you'll have to chkdsk, but I think since I started using NTFS on my Windows machines I've only been in those situations a few times in the past several years.
It's also much more efficient with space. FAT32 wastes less space than FAT16, true, but NTFS is much better. On my 160 gig partition I have about 70% of it full and it's still showing as having less than 1% slack (wasted space) where if I'd use FAT32 I'd guess I'd be looking at about 8% (or more) slack with the same files.
Plus the fact that when editing a RAW video file, it would be impossible . . . those files can grow to 10 gigs or better at times, before converting them to mpeg2.
The file she has is most likely a raw, uncompressed AVI file. They can grow HUGE since they can run several megabytes a second. Even MPEG2 files when recorded with DVD quality (as I use with my DVR software) are about 2 gigs an hour. So if I were to record a movie with it that runs 3 hours I'm looking at a 6 gig file. This is why even some older store-bought DVDs required you to turn them over part way thought the movie. They were single layer/two sided disks and couldn't hold the entire MPEG2 movie on a single, 4.7 gig side. (Goodfella's, one of my favorites, is like this . . . GRRR.)
Mic