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The File Is Too Large for Destination File System - Fixed 3 years 11 weeks ago

Do you want to copy or transfer some files to an external hard drive or a USB flash drive? Have you experienced an error message, saying “The file xxx is too large for the destination file system”?

As a matter of fact, this issue is very common when transferring a file to a local hard disk or a removable device. Why would you not able to copy a file when there is sufficient free space on your storage device? If you view the error window, you will find the file size is larger than 4GB. To put it simply, this is because of the file system limit. When copying a file larger than 2GB to a FAT16 partition or transferring a file larger than 4GB to a FAT32 partition, file too large for destination issue will appear. In order to fix this problem, the best way is to change the file system to NTFS.

Solved –Error Copying File or Folder 3 years 18 weeks ago

Some users could not successfully coy their important files and folders and they received an error message saying: “error copying file or folder. The parameter is incorrect” or “Cannot copy file: The parameter is incorrect.“
In general, sometimes, if you copy a large file to USB flash drive, SD card or an external hard drive, you will get the “error copying file or folder. The parameter is incorrect” message. Now, you need to compress the large file or convert the drive to NTFS which supports larger than 4GB single file before copy files or folders. To be specific,
Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard to get its main interface.
Right click on the FAT32 drive you want to copy files to and select “Convert FAT to NTFS”.
Click “Start” button to begin file system conversion.
Click “Close” to go back to its main interface when this operation is completed.
Next, you can safely and quickly copy files and folders via the Copy Disk feature.

On the other hand, some NTFS users also cannot copy files and receive this error “Cannot copy file: The parameter is incorrect.” Why? In general, there are 3 factors.

1. The target drive you want to save the copy of file or folder doesn’t have enough disk space.
Now, you should use a large drive to replace the one, and then copy files as well as folders by using the Copy Disk feature of MiniTool Partition Wizard.

2. The target drive’s partition table is corrupted.
In this situation, you should fix the partition table before cloning disk to back up files and folders.

3. Pre-positive USB power supply is insufficient.
In this situation, you can try connecting the drive to the USB socket behind the computer case to coy disk to make a backup of files and folders.

The Way I Convert FAT32 to NTFS without Data Loss 3 years 16 weeks ago

We all know that a hard drive should be partitioned and formatted with file system before we can use it directly. During the formatting process, some users choose FAT32 as the target file system. However, after a period of usage, they find some issues occur while using FAT32 partitions. For example, when they try to save an individual file like a movie that is larger than 4GB to the drive, they receive “File is too large for the destination file system” error. Hence, they google and finally know it is the shortage of FAT32 that causes this issue.

[Solved] - The File Is Too Large for the Destination File System 4 years 46 weeks ago

When saving large files to either local hard disk or removable device, you may receive the error “File is too large for destination file system”. If study this code closely, you will find that this problem always occurs on files of which the file sizes are larger than 4GB. In this case, you may wonder what could possibly cause this issue. In this post, we will introduce the reason as well as corresponding solution.

How to Break FAT32 Limitations for Better Usage 3 years 48 weeks ago

If you are a FAT32 users, you are like to have such experience: when you try to store a large file to your drive, computer will respond an error message: file is too large for the destination file system. Do you know what does this mean?

In fact, this error message is caused by the FAT32 file system. We all know that today FAT32 and NTFS are the most commonly used file system for hard drives. FAT32 is compatible with most operating system and play stations, while NTFS offers better performance and higher security. But FAT32 limitations are annoying:

I Do have Enough Free Space But Cannot Copy a File? 4 years 19 weeks ago

In many cases when you copy a large file, even there are enough free space on the drive to hold this file, you receive a warning message saying “there is not enough free space on the drive”. Seems strange?

In fact, this error message is very similar with the “file xxx is too large for the destination file system”. This error code is more clear than not enough free space warning. So they both prompt the same situation: you are copy a single file larger than 4GB to a hard drive employing FAT32 file system.

How to Remove File Is Too Large for the Destination File System 3 years 16 weeks ago

While browsing Windows forums, I find many people are discussing why they receive “file is too large for the destination file system”. Here is a true example from answers.microsoft.com:

Q:”The file is too large for destination file system”? How do you move this file to another folder with this error?

Have you ever encountered such issue? Do you know what caused this error and how to remove it? If you are still confused, you can never miss out the best solution we put forward in this post.