Download finishs at 2GB

I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
What's going on?

use a download manager like this www.freedownloadmanager.org
or flashget

www.flashget.com/en/download.htm

both are free


"Elliot" <> wrote in message
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>I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
>files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
> What's going on?

I don't want to use 3rd party softwares.


"On the Bridge" <> wrote in message
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> use a download manager like this www.freedownloadmanager.org
> or flashget
>
> www.flashget.com/en/download.htm
>
> both are free
>
>
> "Elliot" <> wrote in message
> news:115DB2C0-60F1-4809-B57B-...
>>I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
>>files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
>> What's going on?
>

If you're downloading to an external drive, or a drive formatted with FAT32,
that will be the maximum allowed download size by FAT32. Save files to an
NTFS formatted drive.

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"Elliot" <> wrote in message
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>I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
>files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
> What's going on?

My Vista is NTFS.


"Richard G. Harper" <> wrote in message
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> If you're downloading to an external drive, or a drive formatted with
> FAT32, that will be the maximum allowed download size by FAT32. Save
> files to an NTFS formatted drive.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
>
>
> "Elliot" <> wrote in message
> news:115DB2C0-60F1-4809-B57B-...
>>I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
>>files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
>> What's going on?
>

Richard G. Harper wrote:

> If you're downloading to an external drive, or a drive formatted with
> FAT32, that will be the maximum allowed download size by FAT32. Save
> files to an NTFS formatted drive.
>

Uh, the max. file size under FAT32 is ~4GB. The max. file size under
FAT16 is ~2GB. And, for the sake of completeness, the max. file size
under FAT12 is ~16MB.
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In article <115DB2C0-60F1-4809-B57B->,
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> I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
> files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
> What's going on?

Just how and what are you using for the download? It almost sounds like
something is using a signed 32-bit integer, which has a range of +/-2G.
It could even the the server you are downloading from, or your ISP
limiting you.

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>I don't want to use 3rd party softwares.

then I guess you will be stuck with the problem...

Hope you get used to it


"Elliot" <> wrote in message
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>I don't want to use 3rd party softwares.
>
>
> "On the Bridge" <> wrote in message
> news:47b7f4f2$...
>> use a download manager like this www.freedownloadmanager.org
>> or flashget
>>
>> www.flashget.com/en/download.htm
>>
>> both are free
>>
>>
>> "Elliot" <> wrote in message
>> news:115DB2C0-60F1-4809-B57B-...
>>>I find that the download finishs at 2GB when I download rather large iso
>>>files such as Visual Studio Express / Linux.
>>> What's going on?
>>