I'm trying to copy a 7.6 GB file to my computer running
Windows 2000. Logged in as administrator, I do the copy
but it says "error disk full". It shows the drive as
having 100 GB of free space. What am I doing wrong?

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:31:40 -0700, "Mike Lehman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I'm trying to copy a 7.6 GB file to my computer running
>Windows 2000. Logged in as administrator, I do the copy
>but it says "error disk full". It shows the drive as
>having 100 GB of free space. What am I doing wrong?

Is the drive formatted with Fat32?

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The disk over 100GB could not be formatted with Fat32!

"Michael Cecil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:31:40 -0700, "Mike Lehman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to copy a 7.6 GB file to my computer running
> >Windows 2000. Logged in as administrator, I do the copy
> >but it says "error disk full". It shows the drive as
> >having 100 GB of free space. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Is the drive formatted with Fat32?
>
> --
> Michael Cecil
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

yes it can. not with w2k, but it is possible

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"cxyan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ux7oG$(E-Mail Removed)...
> The disk over 100GB could not be formatted with Fat32!
>
> "Michael Cecil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:31:40 -0700, "Mike Lehman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >I'm trying to copy a 7.6 GB file to my computer running
> > >Windows 2000. Logged in as administrator, I do the copy
> > >but it says "error disk full". It shows the drive as
> > >having 100 GB of free space. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Is the drive formatted with Fat32?
> >
> > --
> > Michael Cecil
> > http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/
>
>