File Too Big

[arileysr2]

Gm all, I have a problem, when I extract a file it tells me that the file is too large to be extract, do I want to know how to I extract this fine and do I just extract it to the disc? Thank you.

[bits]

Gm all, I have a problem, when I extract a file it tells me that the file is too large to be extract, do I want to know how to I extract this fine and do I just extract it to the disc? Thank you.

Need more information.....like what you mean by extract, do you mean copy or move...location of file...type of file...computer specs...what it is you are actually trying to do?????

[jimmalenko]

Gm all, I have a problem, when I extract a file it tells me that the file is too large to be extract

Sorry, crystal ball's in the shop .......


What are you using to extract the file ?

What tells you that message ?

[guns1inger]

Taking a wild guess based on very little information, I would say you have a fat32 based HDD and are trying to create a file larger than 4 GB in size.

Of course, this is just wild supposition.

[arileysr2]

ok files download as winrar archive, and i would have to extract the winrar so when i extract a movie it says it's too large so the question is how do i extract it to put it on a disc or do i extract it to the disc, it's not letting me extract it to burn it as a data file so how can i do it thx

[psx_pirate]

Yup ... deffinately sounds like a fat32 problem ...

The solution ... convert your hdd to ntfs then you will be able to extract the file

[arileysr2]

convert my what? never heard of neither, ok the file i'm trying to extract is 4.37GB, when i try to extract it, it says it's too large, so i'm at a lost trying to extract it so i'm trying to figure out how to extract it, and u said to convert my hdd to ntfs, i'm at a lost with that too, never heard of neither like i said b4, sorry.

[Firewire60]

A partition in your hard disk can be formatted in NTFS format. NTFS format allows larger files and is better than FAT 32 in general. If you do not want to reformat your partiton with the operating system in it and if you do not already have additional partitons on your HD or you do not have two HDs, create an additional partition on your HD and format that to NTFS and put file here and extract it here.
See WINXP Help for sequence to create additional partition and reformat that partiton to NTFS.

I am not an expert but think this will work.

[TJohns]

XP comes with a standard utility to convert your FAT32 to NTFS on-the-fly. Try this in a command prompt windows ...

CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS

(you may need a /X option as well)

[guns1inger]

A little light reading for you

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx

[arileysr2]

ty all