You are trying to save a 6 gigabyte video file onto your computer, but Windows is giving a message that the disk is out of space. You’ve checked the drive, and over 1000 gigabytes of free space is available. Which of these would be the most likely cause of this issue?
A) The file system can’t support a 6 gigabyte file
B) The file index is corrupted
C) The hard drive is damaged
D) The operating system can’t handle video file formats
E) The video won some awards, but I found the story a bit slow and the character development was often lacking
The answer: A) The file system can’t support a 6 gigabyte file
The file system on this Windows computer is probably FAT32. The FAT32 file system can support 2 terabyte volume sizes, but a single file can’t be more than 4 gigabytes in size. The NTFS file system can support file sizes up to 16 exabytes.
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