How to Fix : File Is Too Large For The Destination File System

Описание: Several times we encounter with the situation when we are trying to copy something into the USB hard drive or Pen Drive and you get this error in Windows Operating System.

The file "your filename" is too large for the destination file system.

Recently I faced the problem.
The file size which I am trying to copy is of more than 4GB and the free space available on my USB Stick is more than that. So I should be able to copy this file into my Pen-drive. Still it says that the file is too large for the destination file system.

So let me tell you friends, you may encounter this issue due to the fact that, your pen-drive was previously formatted in FAT32 File system, which allows you to copy the files only up to 4GB in size at a time. And our file size was more than 4GB.

So to overcome this issue, we need to convert the file system on our Pen-drive to NTFS from FAT32. There are two ways. Directly format the drive selecting NTFS from the dropdown, which will erase all your data from Pen-drive, Or convert the file system from FAT32 to NTFS without loosing the data through Command Line.

So lets see the alternative process.

Go to the Start and Type CMD.
Right click on it and open with "Run As Administrator".
Now note down the Drive letter for your Pen-drive. Which was H for my case and then type this simple command in Command Prompt.

"Convert H: /fs:ntfs /nosecurity".

Hit Enter. Once you type Y and hit enter, cmd will start the file system conversion on your USB and after some time it will show the "Conversion complete"

Now if you go to the properties and check the file system, it will show you "NTFS" leaving all your data available on Pen-drive intact.

I would recommend to use this method instead of directly formatting the drive with NTFS file system unless there are some data available on your Pen-drive.

Now after conversion of file system, I succeeded to copy the large file into my Pen-drive .

"Thanks!"