Guest absaluk@gmail.com Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 I am unable to download files greater than 4 GB in size. Is there some way I can set-up/format a partition on my disk drive, or format a second disk drive, or do something else so that I can download these large files?? If you are kind enough to respond, please also send a message to my email address. Many, many thanks!
Guest Gordon Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Filesizes greater than 4 GB. How?? <absaluk@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1191501009.809630.202730@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... >I am unable to download files greater than 4 GB in size. Is there > some way I can set-up/format a partition on my disk drive, or format a > second disk drive, or do something else so that I can download these > large files?? What happens when you try? > > If you are kind enough to respond, please also send a message to my > email address. > > Many, many thanks! > Oh you'll get emails all right, but not from here! How to munge your email address for newsgroups http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Filesizes greater than 4 GB. How?? <absaluk@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1191501009.809630.202730@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... >I am unable to download files greater than 4 GB in size. Is there > some way I can set-up/format a partition on my disk drive, or format a > second disk drive, or do something else so that I can download these > large files?? > > If you are kind enough to respond, please also send a message to my > email address. > > Many, many thanks! > I suspect that your target partition uses the FAT32 file system. You need to convert it to NTFS. Here is how you can do it, assuming that the target is drive D:. 1. Back up your important files to an independent medium. 2. Click Start / Run / cmd {OK} 3. Type these commands: dir D:\ {Enter} (Make a note of the label name!) convert D: /fs:ntfs {Enter} (Enter the label name when prompted)
Guest Tim Slattery Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Filesizes greater than 4 GB. How?? "absaluk@gmail.com" <absaluk@gmail.com> wrote: >I am unable to download files greater than 4 GB in size. Is there >some way I can set-up/format a partition on my disk drive, or format a >second disk drive, or do something else so that I can download these >large files?? Your disk is pretty surely using the FAT32 file system. FAT32 cannot handle files larger than 4GB. You might investigate the "convert" utility to switch it to NTFS, which has no limit on file size. Open a console window ("DOS box") and type convert /? for details on using the convert utility. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) Slattery_T@bls.gov http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Filesizes greater than 4 GB. How?? On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:30:09 -0700, "absaluk@gmail.com" <absaluk@gmail.com> wrote: > I am unable to download files greater than 4 GB in size. Is there > some way I can set-up/format a partition on my disk drive, or format a > second disk drive, or do something else so that I can download these > large files?? Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message multiple times instead of once (they would see it only once if you correctly crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets you poorer help than you should get. If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please do so by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups). Please see "What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple newsgroups?" at http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Gerry Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Filesizes greater than 4 GB. How?? Tim Something missing at the end? -- Regards. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tim Slattery wrote: > "absaluk@gmail.com" <absaluk@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am unable to download files greater than 4 GB in size. Is there >> some way I can set-up/format a partition on my disk drive, or format >> a second disk drive, or do something else so that I can download >> these large files?? > > Your disk is pretty surely using the FAT32 file system. FAT32 cannot > handle files larger than 4GB. You might investigate the "convert" > utility to switch it to NTFS, which has no limit on file size. > > Open a console window ("DOS box") and type > > convert /? > > for details on using the convert utility.
Guest Bob I Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Filesizes greater than 4 GB. How?? nope, at the command prompt "convert /?" is how you get details on using convert ;-) Gerry wrote: > Tim > > Something missing at the end? >
Guest Gerry Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Filesizes greater than 4 GB. How?? I see what you mean Bob. The question mark. The significance eluded me first time. Ugh........ -- Regards. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bob I wrote: > nope, at the command prompt > > "convert /?" > > is how you get details on using convert ;-) > > Gerry wrote: >> Tim >> >> Something missing at the end?
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