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Can’t Copy My Files

Question: yesterday, when copying files, I receive a warning: the file “xxx” is too large for destination file system. At this time, what should I do? Is it possible to complete this copy operation?

Answer: in fact, as long as you turn to MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can easily, quickly and safely solve this problem without data loss.

How to Fix: Can’t Copy My Files

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In general, if you receive “the file “xxx” is too large for destination file system” warning, you need to convert your FAT 32 partition to NTFS since FAT 32 partition can only save a file within 4GB. And, MiniTool Partition Wizard offers Convert FAT to NTFS option to help to complete this conversion without affecting the original data. After that, you can copy files without limitation.

Convert FAT to NTFS

Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard to get its main interface.

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Select the FAT32 partition and then click “Convert FAT to NTFS” partition from the left action panel. Next, click “Start”. It will take a few minutes to complete this conversion. After all operations are done, you can save large files which are more than 4 GB into this partition.

Note: if you need to copy lots of files, you can turn to “Copy Disk” feature provided by MiniTool since this feature can help to easily and quickly cope on disk to another for free.

Copy Disk

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Select the target disk and choose “Copy Disk” from the toolbar.

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Select the disk that will save the copy of the source disk as the target disk and then click “Next”. Note: the target disk should be large enough to hold all content on source disk, and you need to backup all important data on this target disk in advance, because all its data will be deleted.

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Choose a copying method to decide the layout of target disk and then click “Next”.
Click “Finish” button to go back to the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Finally, click “Apply” to perform all changes.

After all operations are done, you have finished copying large files to a destination file system without bringing any damage to the original data.

Backup Entire Hard Drive

Backup Entire Hard Drive

In the information age, we store massive data including operating systems, programs, working documents, business data, pictures, and other data on our computer hard drive because of its large capacity. However, everyone knows hard drive data loss caused by various factors including accidental deletion, virus invasion, and more happens more and more frequently. Therefore, to avoid data loss causes huge losses, we can back up the entire hard drive. So well, if our data are lost, we can easily restore them from backup.

However, do you know how to backup entire hard drive? Is it possible to backup hard drive for free?

Here, MiniTool Partition Wizard, a piece of free yet professional partitioning software developed by famous software provider based in Canada, can help to easily, and quickly backup all data saved on the hard drive to another one without damaging the original data.

How to Backup Entire Hard Drive

To backup hard drive, you need to download MiniTool Partition Wizard from its official website, and then install it on computer. After that, launch it to get its main interface as follows.

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In this window, select the hard drive and then click “Copy Disk” from the left action panel.

select target disk

Now, select a new drive to store the copy of the source hard drive and then click “Next” to continue.

copy option

At this time, select a suitable copy option and then click “Next” button. And then, click “Finish” to go back to the main interface.

Finally, click “Apply” to perform all changes. Thus, all work has been done.

After seeing the above simple introduction, I guess you must have a basic understanding of how to backup entire hard drive with MiniTool Partition Wizard. In fact, this free partitioning software also offers other excellent features to help to manage partitions effectively and quickly.

How to Clone a Hard Drive

Hard drive clone can help to copy all the content on a disk to another one in the easiest way. In the following situations, you may need to take such an operation:

1. Plan to upgrade small old hard disk to larger newer one without reinstalling Windows and all other installed programs.
2. Make a backup for the disk which saves significant files.
However, do you know how to clone a hard drive safely and successfully? Here we will introduce you a reliable disk clone software and it will guide you do the job with little effort.

How to Clone a Hard Drive

To clone hard drive, MiniTool Partition Wizard is a good choice for common users. It is not only a free partitioning tool, but also offers excellent performance as well as simple operation.

Step 1: You can click here to download this professional yet free partitioning management software, and then install it on computer. After that, launch it to get its main interface.

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Step 2: In the main interface of this freeware, select the hard drive you like to operate and then click “Copy Disk” from the Operations to continue.

select target disk

Step 3: Select a drive to save the copy the original drive as target disk and then click “Next” button. Note: please choose a large target disk which has enough free space to store all data saved on source disk.

copy option

Step 4: Click “Finish” button to return to the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard.

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Step 5: Tap “Apply” on the right corner and click “Yes” to perform all changes.

Thus, after all operations are done, you have finished copying hard drive without data loss.

Overview of MiniTool Partition Wizard

See! As a piece of green, simple, professional and free partitioning management software, MiniTool offers “Copy Disk” feature which can clone one disk to another disk with ease. In addition to this excellent feature, this freeware provides other powerful features including Move/Resize Partition, Extend Partition, Partition Recovery, Wipe disk and more to help to perfectly manage partitions.