sashagrey Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 I'm getting the filesize limit error even though my drive is using NTFS. Using Bittorrent. Please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 All drives are using NTFS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashagrey Posted July 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 No, but it worked on files like this before after I changed the destination drive to NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintball9 Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 How big are the items you're having issues with, because fat32 works up to 3gb. Are you sure the drive actually changed to ntfs, Recheck the drive properties to make sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashagrey Posted July 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 The file is 4gb and yes I checked that it is NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintball9 Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 Do any other programs give this error, and can you transfer a 4gb file to that drive manually successfully? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashagrey Posted July 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 Haven't had the error with other programs, and this is the only drive that is NTFS so haven't tried transferring files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintball9 Posted July 23, 2010 Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 What OS are you using that only one drive is NTFS. If you're on windows every drive should be NTFS and if you're on mac you won't be able to write anything to an NTFS drive anyways without third-party add-ons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashagrey Posted July 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2010 I'm on Windows XP, for some reason the external drives I added are NTFS automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintball9 Posted July 26, 2010 Report Share Posted July 26, 2010 So you're saying that your main drive is not NTFS?Also I did some research and apparently a problem can arise with filesize limits on ntfs is there are multiple HD with not all of them being NTFS, if one of them is FAT32 is may trigger a system wide limit for some strange reason. If you have a FAT32 drive and can unplug it temporarily and still access windows try and do so.Another possibility I found here, http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/21058-45-ntfs-problem-files"Also, to refresh some people's memories. The original NTFS format from theoriginal NT OS had a limit of 4 GB per file size. This was changed withupdates to NT via SPs but the drive had to be reformatted with the updatedOS. If a person takes a NTFS formatted drive from an original NT machineand plugs it into a 2000 or XP box the 4 GB size limit MAY remain. Ran intothis problem on an NT Server system at work many years ago. "So basically its possible that whatever company you got your hard drive from could have been formatting their drives with a very early version of NTFS. If so that would be rather unfortunate, however not un-fixable. I'm not sure if a later version of windows (vista/7) would recognize the old version as being seperate, especially since they use two seperate versions as it is (NTFS, and NTFS5) But try to use it in a newer computer and look if it gives an option to upgrade (earlier FS usually had the option). If not then you may have to find a way to back up all the stuff on that drive and reformat from either windows xp or newer (make sure its not ntfs5 if you plan on using it from xp) and then it should work for you. Hopefully thats not too much work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashagrey Posted July 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 Thank you for the information! What I'm saying is that the C drive AND the drive I'm trying to use the file on are both NTFS. I do have other HDs that are not, so I'll try unplugging them and see if that works. Also, the computer had XP on it when I bought it, so the nt problem shouldn't apply, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintball9 Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 But your second harddrive might have originally been formated on a computer that was, so it could actually be running that old version of ntfs, a re-format would be the only way to find out for sure.Only do that if the removal of the fat32 drives does not help. (you could always just update those drives to ntfs instead of removing them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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