How to remove the 4 gb limitation when I should save files bigger than 4 gb on vista 32 bit sp2.

There is no file size limit in Vista itself that is likely to be encountered in normal use.  But there are hard limits in file systems.

External drives are commonly formatted FAT32, both from the factory and as the Windows default, unless you specifically reformat them using a different file system.  On a FAT32 external drive, 4 GB is the largest file that can be written.  It's a limitation in the file system and there is no solution within that file system other than breaking the file up into parts, e.g., multi-part RAR..

A drive must be formatted exFAT or NTFS to store a file larger than 4 GB.

If you have exFAT or NTFS formatted drives and cannot write 4 GB files to them, then there is some other problem that must be investigated.

Your external drives are also likely to be formatted FAT32 - find an empty one with capacity greater than 4GB and reformat it as NTFS then you'll be able to same your larger files to it.

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