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I can copy anything larger than 4gb on to an external hard drive. How do I fix this?

April 26, 2017Computers copy electronics external hard drive Fix larger memory Technology

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I can copy anything larger than 4gb on to an external hard drive. How do I fix this?

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Your drive is formatted to FAT32 which has a built in limit of 4GB per file. Steps to fix: • Backup everything on the drive to somewhere else • Reformat the drive as NTFS • Copy everything back on the drive NTFS doesn’t have a file size limit. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.