“Transfer limits My 1 TB WD ext. hard drive limits on transferring files specifically movies - nothing over 4 GB transfers due to size according to the pop-up message. Does this hard drive limit what you can transfer to it? If anyone has any suggestions on where to check in settings on Windows 8.1 I would also greatly appreciate it since I've looked & didn't find anything indicating limit.”
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Make sure it's formatted as NTFS. FAT has a file size limitation of 4GB.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Make sure the drive is formatted ro ntfs, other formats have size limits
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This is related to how the drive is formatted. Here's some info from a MS page: First, note that there are three varieties of FAT: FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32. Many people call FAT16 just FAT, because before FAT32 came out, FAT16 was the only variety used for hard drives, so just calling it FAT was sufficient. FAT12 (hardly used at all anymore) had a maximum volume size of 12mb. It was used almost exclusively for floppy disks. FAT16 was used on hard drives (or partitions) up to 4GB, and had a cluster size that varied from 2kb to 64kb, depending on the size of the partition. It is almost never used anymore, because almost nobody has partitions as small as 4GB. FAT32 took over from FAT16 and has a maximum drive size of 2TB. Its maximum file size is 4GB, which is why you can't copy a 5GB file to it. Its cluster size is 4KB up to a partition of 8GB. Above 8GB the cluster size grows up to 32kb. NTFS is what almost everyone should be using on their hard drives today. Its maximum volume size is 2^^64-1, and its maximum file size is 16 × 1024^^6 bytes (way more than the biggest hard drive available today). Its cluster size stays at 4kb, regardless of the volume size.
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