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Is there a file size limit on Windows?

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Mar 15, 202656886 views
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I'm using Windows 7. I just lost a .vdi file (a virtual hard drive for my VM), and I'm wondering if there's a file size limit for windows which might have caused a problem. I hadn't checked the size of the file lately (I set it to dynamically size as needed), but it was 15 to 30Gb at a guess. It wo…

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If the drive with your file is formatted with NTFS (which is the default in Windows 7), then according to Wikipedia, the maximum file size is 16 TB. Even if you were to (attempt) to exceed that limit, you would simply be unable to make the file any …

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