Re: Moving Very Large Files (> 4GB)

I didn't mean to scare... maybe I should elaborate.

The problem I had was a TOTAL of ~4gig of transfers before the harddrive
gave a "Delayed Write Failed" and I had to turn it off and on again.

So 2x 2gig files wouldn't work for me either, unless I turned the drive off
then on again after each file.

If you're able to copy 2x 2gb without any probs, then hopefully all you have
is the FAT32 issue.
If not, then regardless of internal or external-ness, all data transfers go
via the PCI bus, so its kinda crappy :(

"P-Chip" <PChip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E85CC2C4-7701-434F-9DA6-EFD270739D96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Wow! Never thought about that. I mean, WOW! I would have *never* thought
> about that. Now that's something's that's going to be beyond the horizon
> at
> least for a year or two.
>
> My external HD is a USB 2.0 drive connected to a PCI USB 2.0 extension
> card.
> The problem is that I had the exact same issue when moving files to
> another
> drive on my system (which had nothing to do with the PCI bus) which leads
> me
> to believe that one or two of my volumes could be FAT32 (which is highly
> unlikely since I formatted all the new drives myself (as opposed to the
> manufacturer), and I haven't had a FAT32 volume in years).
>
> The other interesting thing is that I wrote a program in .NET to actually
> copy a file stream over to another file stream, 1 kB at a time. And even
> that
> process just stopped after getting to about 3.99 GB (the theoretical limit
> of
> 1 byte under 4 GB!). So I am thinking there's definitely some FAT32 in the
> equation.
>
> Now FAT32, I can handle -- all I have to do is to convert the volumes to
> NTFS. But if there is actually an issue with the mobo, I am toast! I have
> no
> choice but to split the files, transfer them over to my external driver
> and
> re-create them -- UGH!
>
> Thanks!
> Pat
>
> "Andi" wrote:
>
>> I had this problem with my external Western Digital 250gig drive.
>> Initially thought it was the FAT32 issue, but upto converting it to NTFS
>> it
>> still stayed.
>>
>> The issue is more to do with the PCI bus in your PC.
>>
>> I use Firewire on my Creative Labs Audigy 2 soundcard, and this problem
>> stayed through many reinstalls.
>>
>> Bought a new motherboard + CPU but stayed with the same sound card, and
>> the
>> issue has now disappeared....
>>
>> Sadly not really a solution - but if it is an external drive, try it on
>> another machine and try the copy over the network - it may be the mobo
>> thats
>> the prob :(
>>
>> "P-Chip" <PChip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:8CF621DD-F2BF-4653-992F-4A312B680093@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hmm, it's possible that my external drive (Iogear 250 GB) is formatted
>> > using
>> > FAT32. But to rule that out, I tried moving the files between my hard
>> > drives
>> > and hit the same error. Some FAT32 must have snuck in somehow. I'll
>> > have
>> > to
>> > take a closer look.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Pat
>> >
>> > "Bob [MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Are all your drives formatted using the NTFS file
>> >> system? If you're trying to copy to a FAT32 drive,
>> >> you would run into the 4GB file size limit imposed
>> >> by that file system.
>> >>
>> >> I move files much larger than 4GB all the time.
>> >> I never had to modify any settings such as page
>> >> size.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> -Bob
>> >> _______________________________
>> >> Microsoft MVP
>> >> Windows XP Media Center Edition
>> >> http://www.microsoft.com/ehome
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "P-Chip" <PChip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:02F2C95F-47E0-433C-9041-2ED41FE74809@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > Hi All,
>> >> >
>> >> > The question is probably technically an XP newsgroup question, but
>> >> > since all
>> >> > of us MCE users have to deal with this on a daily basis, I thought
>> >> > this
>> >> > would
>> >> > be an appropriate forum for it.
>> >> >
>> >> > When I try to move files larger than 4 GB (actually larger than 3.99
>> >> > GB), I
>> >> > get the spurious error about the access being denied. This is
>> >> > obviously
>> >> > not
>> >> > the case -- it has nothing to do with file access. I know it has
>> >> > something to
>> >> > do with the file size limit (4 GB) or the page file size. I have
>> >> > tried
>> >> > to
>> >> > reset page file size, but Windows automatically resizes that on
>> >> > reboot.
>> >> > So
>> >> > that doesn't seem to be the way out. I also tried searching on the
>> >> > Internet,
>> >> > but couldn't find anything that even recognizes 4 GB as a limit for
>> >> > copying
>> >> > or moving files. So it could be something to do with my setttings.
>> >> >
>> >> > Does anyone know of a way to move large files around (without having
>> >> > to
>> >> > split them first)?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks!
>> >> > Pat
>> >>
>>
>>
>>


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