Since Windows detects file system of your USB drive is FAT32 and the file size is more than 4 GB, it stops the operation and throws file too large error message. But you can’t copy/move an individual file larger than 4 GB to FAT32 file system. Although you can copy data up to 2 TB on an external drive using FAT32 file system.
This problem occurs when you try to copy or move a file larger than 4 GB to an external hard disk or USB flash drive which was formatted using FAT (also known as FAT16) or FAT32 file system.įAT and FAT32 file systema have some limitations and you can’t store a file on FAT and FAT32 file systems which is larger than 2 GB and 4 GB in size respectively. My USB drive capacity was 32 GB and there was sufficient free space on the USB drive, still Windows was unable to copy the file and displayed file too large error message. Windows was unable to copy Install.wim file to my USB drive. Recently while copying Windows 10 setup files to one of my USB drives, I got this error message as shown in following screenshot: You get only “Cancel” button to terminate copying/moving operation. “The File is Too Large for the Destination File System” Error Message During copying/moving, Windows shows following error message: You are trying to copy or move a few files from your computer to your USB drive (pen drive) or external hard disk drive (HDD).
#FILE IS TOO LARGE FOR DESTINATION FILE SYSTEM HOW TO#
If you are getting “The file is too large for the destination file system” error message while copying files to your USB drive and want to know how to fix this error message, this tutorial will help you.