Moving Big Files (7gb+)

kellaway225 · 19 Mar 2010 at 15:57

right i am in the process of moving all my stuff to my new desktop but i have a few files that are over 7gb and despite having enough room on my drives i am unable to move them - how can i get these files over to the new desktop?

titaniumx3 · 19 Mar 2010 at 17:20

How are you moving them? If you are using external usb drives, you need to make sure they are formatted in NTFS, since FAT32 has a 4gb file size limit.

kellaway225 · 19 Mar 2010 at 19:28

that could be it, they are FAT32 they are memory cards one is being used in my PSP and the other is in my phone (both 16gb) and they have the space - what would formatting them to NTFS do? i mean it wont stop them being usable in my phone and psp will they?

Tomsk · 19 Mar 2010 at 19:32

You have two PCs? get a network cable.

kellaway225 · 19 Mar 2010 at 19:49

dam i knew i was forgetting something, i just need to find the network cable - how long would it take to transfer the files this way?

Greenlizard0 · 19 Mar 2010 at 19:55

Depends on the connection, I think the ones at the backs of motherboards tend to be 100Mb/s.

Phemo · 19 Mar 2010 at 19:59

kellaway225 said:
dam i knew i was forgetting something, i just need to find the network cable - how long would it take to transfer the files this way?

10GB takes around 15 minutes on a 100mbit connection so one of your 7GB files should take around 10 minutes. If both your ethernet connections are gigabit then it'll of course be faster.

kellaway225 · 19 Mar 2010 at 20:07

great thanks, i will have to search out my cable

Zarf · 20 Mar 2010 at 00:19

you could also create split archives with 7zip. This would let you split the 7GB file into multiple smaller files that FAT32 could accept.

master811 · 20 Mar 2010 at 12:09

If you format/convert your memory cards to NTFS, i suspect your phone/PSP may no longer be able to read it.

If it doesn't work, then simply re-format back to FAT32 though.

HungryHippos · 21 Mar 2010 at 16:22

If both machines are connected to the same Router/Network then you can simply transfer the files across the network.

I you want to copy the files from the old desktop and there's a lot, probably the quickest way is to plug the hard drive into the new PC and just do a hard drive > hard drive transfer.

elmuzzy66. · 21 Mar 2010 at 16:31

can the same be done with a ps3? Hook it up via calbe and transfer big movie files

mattjd · 21 Mar 2010 at 17:41

elmuzzy66. said:
can the same be done with a ps3? Hook it up via calbe and transfer big movie files

Yes that is possible even with wifi (which will obviously be slower because the PS3 only has Wireless G support which gets max 54mbps) You just need a media server setted up with WMP or something similiar