Cannnot copy file

[Guest]

I'm in the process of cleaning up several 250GB drives by copying the
contents to larger HDs until I can free up 8 250GB drives for a new RAID5. I
used SyncBack to copy the files from one of the drives to a 400GB drive. All
but 14 files were copied over. At first I thought it was a bug in SyncBack
but when I attempted to copy via windows explorer (WinXP Pro with all the
updates) it failed with the same message "Error copying file or folder,
Cannot copy xxxxxx. There is not enought free disk space" I have just over
200GB free on the target drive thus I know I have enough space. The size of
the 14 files range from 4.3GB to 4.6GB. Have I hit some file size limit in XP
Pro? I'm using the 32 bit version. As a work around I used WinRAR to package
the files into smaller chunks, this worked but not a super neat solution -
I'd much rather have a native solution.

 

[Nepatsfan]

I'm in the process of cleaning up several 250GB drives by
copying the contents to larger HDs until I can free up 8
250GB drives for a new RAID5. I used SyncBack to copy the
files from one of the drives to a 400GB drive. All but 14
files were copied over. At first I thought it was a bug in
SyncBack but when I attempted to copy via windows explorer
(WinXP Pro with all the updates) it failed with the same
message "Error copying file or folder, Cannot copy xxxxxx.
There is not enought free disk space" I have just over 200GB
free on the target drive thus I know I have enough space.
The size of the 14 files range from 4.3GB to 4.6GB. Have I
hit some file size limit in XP Pro? I'm using the 32 bit
version. As a work around I used WinRAR to package the files
into smaller chunks, this worked but not a super neat
solution - I'd much rather have a native solution.

It sounds like your target drive is formatted FAT32. FAT32 has
a file size limit of 4GB.
To get around this issue, move the files to a drive formatted
NTFS.

Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q314463

Courtesy of Alex Nichols, MS-MVP
Converting FAT32 to NTFS
http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[philo]

I'm in the process of cleaning up several 250GB drives by copying the
contents to larger HDs until I can free up 8 250GB drives for a new RAID5. I
used SyncBack to copy the files from one of the drives to a 400GB drive. All
but 14 files were copied over. At first I thought it was a bug in SyncBack
but when I attempted to copy via windows explorer (WinXP Pro with all the
updates) it failed with the same message "Error copying file or folder,
Cannot copy xxxxxx. There is not enought free disk space" I have just over
200GB free on the target drive thus I know I have enough space. The size of
the 14 files range from 4.3GB to 4.6GB. Have I hit some file size limit in XP
Pro? I'm using the 32 bit version. As a work around I used WinRAR to package
the files into smaller chunks, this worked but not a super neat solution -
I'd much rather have a native solution.

Hard to imagine...but by any chance is the partition you are copying to
fat32???
The drive should be NTFS however once in a while a new drive will come
pre-formatted at fat32

Fat32 has a 4gig file size limit .

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I'm in the process of cleaning up several 250GB drives by copying the
contents to larger HDs until I can free up 8 250GB drives for a new
RAID5. I used SyncBack to copy the files from one of the drives to a
400GB drive. All but 14 files were copied over. At first I thought it
was a bug in SyncBack but when I attempted to copy via windows
explorer (WinXP Pro with all the updates) it failed with the same
message "Error copying file or folder, Cannot copy xxxxxx. There is
not enought free disk space" I have just over 200GB free on the
target drive thus I know I have enough space. The size of the 14
files range from 4.3GB to 4.6GB. Have I hit some file size limit in
XP Pro? I'm using the 32 bit version.

You are copying to a FAT32 drive. FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB. The
error message you describe (although terribly misleading) is the one you get
when you try to write a file larger than 4GB to a FAT32 drive.

The solution is to reformat the drives as NTFS.