Author: Lars Bremer
Date: 12:38:59 12/13/03
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On December 13, 2003 at 14:43:54, Darren Rushton wrote: >Is it possible that a drive has a maximum file szie set? > >I have a 30GB hard drive onto which I'm trying to place the ChessLib opening >book for Chessbase. > >Someone sent me the opening book in 10 Win RAR files which when I "unRAR" them >are each 530MB in size. > >I then tried to combine them using a free program called "splits", but it >refused to combine all 10, saying my max. file size for the drive is 4GB. > >Not sure whether my ancient pc would handle trying to load a 5.3GByte opening >book. > >Any expert feedback would be most appreciated. > >Regards, > >Daz Hi, it depends on the file system. if you use Windows, your file system can be NTFS or FAT32. NTFS can handle a practically unlimited file size, FAT32 can't handle files >4 GByte. But I strongly recommend not to use files >2 GByte cause a lot of programs have a signed 32-bit-counter for the filesize and fail if the file is > 2 GByte. ciao Lars
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