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How to Fix File Is Too Large for the Destination File System for Pen Drives and USB Storage Drives

Yesterday, while copying some large files to an external hard drive, I was promptly issued this message by Windows:

The file is too large for the destination file system.
So I wondered to myself what could possibly cause this issue. My external hard drive had tons of free space, so why would I not be able to copy this file over?

Issues addressed in this tutorial:
how to fix file too large for destination file system
why is my file too large for the destination folder
why does it say file too large for destination

Windows may have gotten much better at managing space but it isn’t without the odd problem now and again. I was asked the other day to fix an issue a customer had when moving files between their hard drive and an external drive. They kept seeing ‘file too large for destination file system’ errors. Here is how I fixed it for them.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.