How to Fix “File is too large for destination file system” Error

Hello Friends, 

                       How are you? I hope you are fine. 

                       Today I am going to tell you How to Fix “File is too large for destination file system” Error. 

First Thing you need to know why this error is occurring.

Your flash drive’s default file system is FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32bit). The Fat32 file system can be detectable by all of the operating systems. That’s why your USB’s default file system is FAT32. But in the FAT32 file system, you cannot copy a larger file than 4 GB. That’s why when you try to copy a file larger than 4 GB then this error appears.

You can see the below table that show the limitation of file system

Criteria	NTFS5	NTFS	exFAT	FAT32	FAT16	FAT12
Limitations
Max File Size	264 bytes (16 ExaBytes) minus 1KB	244 bytes (16 TeraBytes) minus 64KB	16EB	4GB minus 2 Bytes	2GB (Limit Only by Volume Size)	16MB (Limit Only by Volume Size)

The Fat32 file system only allow 4GB minus 2 Bytes file to transfer.

So we need to change the drive from FAT32 to NTFS Format

Before starting the process, you should copy all of your data from USB to your hard disk. Now follow the steps:

1.         First Right click on the drive that you want to change into NTFS file system and select format.

2.         Now select the NTFS file system and click on the start and wait until the format process has done.

3.         Check the properties of the desired drive and you will see the file format has changed into the NTFS file system.

4.         Now you can also transfer the file larger than 4GB.