2.2gig file wont download

movingtables · 7 Jan 2009 at 18:21

If i try to download a 1gig video file on a newsgroup thats fine.
If I want to download a 2.2gig video file on the same news group It never allows it and the download sticks.

Is this a limitation of a 32bit operating system (XP-service pack3) ?

I'm using FDM (free download manager).
10mb connection.

cheers.

movingtables · 7 Jan 2009 at 18:27

sr4470 said:
No, you can have files up to 4GB in size in 32-bit operating systems.

Is 2gig only available for usermode though ?
the other 2gig is used for the kernal.

Im doing a bit of reading but probably confusing myself lol.

thanks anyway.

movingtables · 7 Jan 2009 at 18:32

sr4470 said:
I was able to read a larger than 2GB file just fine although that was with a UDF\ISO file system on a DVD I made.

Is it true a 64bit operating system would allow me to download a maximum file of 8tb ?

movingtables · 7 Jan 2009 at 18:36

sr4470 said:
Yeah, if you had the hard drive space\RAM\processing power to handle it

finaly a reason for me to try vista64 lol.

thanks for your help

movingtables · 7 Jan 2009 at 20:21

sparkey196 said:
Even with XP x86 you can have files up to 16TB. 2GB and 4GB are limitations of the FAT16 and FAT32 file systems respectively.

I thought my file system was NTFS.
why cant I download 2.2gig files?

movingtables · 7 Jan 2009 at 20:29

Craig321 said:
Try another download program maybe, might be a limitation of the program?

yes i was thinking that.
but FDM gives me up to 16 connections.

I looked into "getright" but only offered me 4 connections.

I will have to research an alternative.