I moved a huge file from my laptop onto my network drive, which is FAT32 formatted and it split it into 2 seperate files. I then deleted the original file from my laptop harddrive as I needed the room and now can't workout how or if it's possible to 'stitch' the 2 files back together. Does anyone know if it's possible? Cheers in advance!
As you have found FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB so anything more than this will be split up. It may be possible to recreate the original file by copying the two files back onto your NTFS laptop drive and stiching it back together by opening a command prompt and using the following:
copy <file1> + <file2> <target>
where
<file1> is the filename of the 4GB part of the split file
<file2> is the filename of the 2GB part of the split file
<target> is the filename of the 6GB file you are hoping to recreate
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tells copy its a binary file back in the day I used to stich sections of AVI files from usenet back together this way with a batch fille to automate the process