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03-12-2009, 12:58 PM
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Computer guys: FAT question
Hey, is there a maximum size for FAT files as opposed to NTFS? I'm trying to put a 5 gig video file on a flash drive and it says it's full all the time.
It also won't let me re-format the flash drive to NTFS. What can I do besides breaking the video into smaller pieces?
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03-12-2009, 01:02 PM
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Delete the partition of the flash drive with the use of disk management, then format it to NTFS.
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03-12-2009, 01:04 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
Windows 2000 and Windows XP can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size, but the format program included in Windows 2000 and higher can only create FAT32 file systems of 32 GiB or less. This limitation is by design and according to Microsoft was imposed because many tasks on a very large FAT32 file system become slow and inefficient.[14][19] This limitation can be bypassed by using third-party formatting utilities or by using the built-in FORMAT.EXE command-line utility.[20][21] The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB minus 1 byte (232−1 bytes). Video applications, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another formatting type such as NTFS. Until mid-2006, those who run dual boot systems or who move external data drives between computers with different operating systems had little choice but to stick with FAT32. Since then, full support for NTFS has become available in Linux and many other operating systems, by installing the FUSE library (on Linux) together with the NTFS-3G driver. Data exchange is also possible between Windows and Linux by using the Linux-native ext2 or ext3 file systems through the use of external drivers for Windows, such as ext2 IFS; however, Windows cannot boot from ext2 or ext3 partitions.
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03-12-2009, 01:05 PM
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Quote:
http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm
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03-12-2009, 01:10 PM
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Cool, thanks!
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