Western Digital external hard drive issue

[AledJ]

I have a western digital external hard drive which has around 300GB of space. Yesterday I decided to back up and remove form my laptop, some holidays vids and pictures that were taking up space. Now I checked I had enough space (it has 291GB left) so I could back up a large video which is 4.11 GB avi file. But it says the fiel si too large for the destination file system. This has really confused me as I grouped together some small videos (around 1.96GB) and it transferred them fine. Any ideas as what is going on as there is enough space left.


Thanks

[peterb]

If your external drive is formatted to FAT32, the maximum file size is 4Gb (actually 4GB-1). As the error message says, the file is too big for the filesystem regardless of the size (or free space) of the volume.

[AledJ]

If your external drive is formatted to FAT32, the maximum file size is 4Gb (actually 4GB-1). As the error message says, the file is too big for the filesystem regardless of the size (or free space) of the volume.

Ah right thanks I'll zip file it instead.