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External hard drive not letting transfer large files?

I have a hard drive that I pulled out of a laptop and using an external enclosure to use with usb. I can transfer files that are about 2.5 gb, but I have some that are almost 4gb that freeze up when transfering from my desktop hard drive to the external. I have tried formating the external with NTFS, and retrying, nothing really happens, it just gets further into the process and stops. Any suggestions?

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  • Zarn
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    You've partially right - it's likely the disk format that is the problem.

    You need to use NTFS. And you should probably use TeraCopy in order to verify that the data are, in fact, streaming. http://codesector.com/teracopy

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