7GB mp4 file won't fit onto external HDD

[techmot]

Hi, does anyone know why an MP4 file I have of a film at around 7GB in size won't fit onto an external HDD which has around 50GB of available space left on it?. Does this mean the file is much bigger than it is? (I've checked the file in MediaInfo and it reads as it should at 7.92GB). I copied the file from an internal HDD when I removed it some months back, at first on my other external HDD and it copied the file over without any problems onto that one, but for some reason it can't transfer the file onto my other HDD.

[hello_hello]

It's possibly formatted as fat32, which has a file size limit of 4GB. Older versions of Windows, and possibly newer versions too, mislead you by telling you there's not enough room on the drive.
If that's the reason, reformatting the drive using the NTFS file system will fix the problem, although if you're using the drive with a non-PC device, make sure it can read an NTFS drive.

[mammo1789]

Hi, does anyone know why an MP4 file I have of a film at around 7GB in size won't fit onto an external HDD which has around 50GB of available space left on it?. Does this mean the file is much bigger than it is? (I've checked the file in MediaInfo and it reads as it should at 7.92GB). I copied the file from an internal HDD when I removed it some months back, at first on my other external HDD and it copied the file over without any problems onto that one, but for some reason it can't transfer the file onto my other HDD.

because probably your external HDD is FAT32 formatted which has limit of 4gb files

[techmot]

Hi, does anyone know why an MP4 file I have of a film at around 7GB in size won't fit onto an external HDD which has around 50GB of available space left on it?. Does this mean the file is much bigger than it is? (I've checked the file in MediaInfo and it reads as it should at 7.92GB). I copied the file from an internal HDD when I removed it some months back, at first on my other external HDD and it copied the file over without any problems onto that one, but for some reason it can't transfer the file onto my other HDD.

because probably your external HDD is FAT32 formatted which has limit of 4gb files

Oh right never thought it might be because of that. Sounds like that's what it could. Thanks for the help.

[ProWo]

Convert Fat32 to Ntfs.
https://recoverit.wondershare.com/partition-management/fat32-to-ntfs-without-losing-data.html