[Solved] The File is Too Large For The Destination File System

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File is too large for the destination file system while copying files larger than 4 GB to external disks like a flash drive or internal disk partition. This error occurs when you are trying to copy a file larger than 4 GB to a fat32 disk or disk partition. In order to fix this issue, you need to convert fat32 to NTFS. (This will work with Windows 7, 8.1, and Windows 10) There may be 2 situations- 1. If you are copying the file to an external disk (Flash drive/ HDD) and this disk doesn't contain any data. Then you can simply format it to NTFS. Right-click on the disk then format. Select file system "NTFS" and check the "Quick Format" and Start. This will delete everything from the disk and convert it to NTFS. 2. If the disk or internal disk partition has data and you don't want to delete it. Then you need to convert fat32 to NTFS without losing data. Access elevated command prompt. Type

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