Large files get truncated at 4GB upon recovery

[jmorrey]

I have (had?) the following large movie file:

 

Filename: alaska.avi

Path: J:\media\2004\alaskaCruise

 

Size: 13,928,792,064

 

State: Excellent

 

Creation time: 9/8/2007 15:57

 

Last modification time: 7/20/2004 23:28

 

Last access time: 11/26/2007 08:37

 

Comment: No overwritten clusters detected.

 

3400584 cluster(s) allocated at offset 38317930

 

Recuva found it during a deep scan of my external USB hard drive. I think the drive was accidentally quick formatted (that's just a guess though). When I try to recover the big file to another drive, Recuva writes out a file that's exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes) and stops. I have one other large file, and I get the same results. Exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes), no more. The source hard drive (the one I'm recovering from) is NTFS, 465GB, cluster size: 4096, file record size: 1024. The target hard drive (the one I'm recovering to) is FAT32 and has plenty of space. I had excellent results recovering everything else on the drive under 4GB in size... all 32,000+ files! So I'd like to believe/hope my big movie is still intact and I'm just hitting some simple issue. Any ideas?...

[davey]

I have (had?) the following large movie file:

 

Filename: alaska.avi

Path: J:\media\2004\alaskaCruise

 

Size: 13,928,792,064

 

State: Excellent

 

Creation time: 9/8/2007 15:57

 

Last modification time: 7/20/2004 23:28

 

Last access time: 11/26/2007 08:37

 

Comment: No overwritten clusters detected.

 

3400584 cluster(s) allocated at offset 38317930

 

Recuva found it during a deep scan of my external USB hard drive. I think the drive was accidentally quick formatted (that's just a guess though). When I try to recover the big file to another drive, Recuva writes out a file that's exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes) and stops. I have one other large file, and I get the same results. Exactly 3.99 GB (4,294,705,152 bytes), no more. The source hard drive (the one I'm recovering from) is NTFS, 465GB, cluster size: 4096, file record size: 1024. The target hard drive (the one I'm recovering to) is FAT32 and has plenty of space. I had excellent results recovering everything else on the drive under 4GB in size... all 32,000+ files! So I'd like to believe/hope my big movie is still intact and I'm just hitting some simple issue. Any ideas?...

Hello jmorrey,

I think you are going to have to restore that movie to a NTFS volume.

4 GB is the limit for FAT32 files.

Must be some movie !!!

 

Good luck,

davey