6 gig ISO file XFer from win7 to external drive says it's too large?

I am trying to use a 500 gig sata drive for storage transferring data through a USB to hard disk tool/cable.

The tool is a Vantec USB to IDE/SATA adapter. Vantec ? Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter - CB-ISATAU2 - 2.5"/3.5"/5.25" SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter

I bought it to be able to have more storage for my laptop and at 20 bucks it was cheap solution cus I already had a new 500 gig drive.

I haven't really used it much and this is the first time I tried to transfer something with large file sizes. I do not know if it's the tool, hardware limitation but I suspect it's the file system on the external drive?

It's Fat 32. I Can format it with NTSF and try to recopy the data.. ( luckily as I had not moved. only copied it)

I don't remember now but there was a reason I left it as Fat 32. Does this sound like it should fix the problem or should i try another solution first?

Edit:

I remember why I wanted to leave the drive Fat 32. That was so I could also use the device and drive to copy data over from my Linux and BSD operating systems. Bummer unless I find a way around this.

File Allocation Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB minus 1 byte or 4,294,967,295 bytes."

Looks like your suspicions are correct.

I'd think the solution is to make 2 partitions on that 500 GB drive: a FAT32 partition for Linux/BSD and an NTFS partition for Windows. Or two entirely different drives.

ignatzatsonic said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

I'd think the solution is to make 2 partitions on that 500 GB drive: a FAT32 partition for Linux/BSD and an NTFS partition for Windows. Or two entirely different drives.

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Yeah that was the problem. Good idea, to partition the drive each with a different file system. I might just pick up another drive anyway though, as I see they are getting cheap.

Thanks.

getting cheap!? lol still over £100 per TB! used to be £35! lol

Is this why I can't transfer some avi files via usb 2.0 to a thumb drive ? I have a thumb drive that is 14 gb's. My large avi movies can be 5 gb's or more. Error says it's too large a file.

truckinguy said:

Is this why I can't transfer some avi files via usb 2.0 to a thumb drive ? I have a thumb drive that is 14 gb's. My large avi movies can be 5 gb's or more. Error says it's too large a file.

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You should have started a new thread rather than appending to one that's more than a year old.

Yes. Format the USB flash drive as NTFS, and that'll fix the file size limitation. (eFAT might be OK too, but I have never tried that.)

Some OSes (DOS, for example) don't natively work with NTFS, but the versions of Windows that descend from NT (2000, XP, Vista, 7, and 8) do.