copy not working

[Guest]

hey all,
i have an 8 GB file i need to copy from 1 external hard disk to another
external hard disk and it's saying i don't have enough room to do the copy.
I'm assuming that it's referring to my system drive (C:\) which has 3 GB free
space ? Any ideas around this?

thanks,
rodchar

 

[Merlin]

hey all,
i have an 8 GB file i need to copy from 1 external hard disk to another
external hard disk and it's saying i don't have enough room to do the
copy.
I'm assuming that it's referring to my system drive (C:\) which has 3 GB
free
space ? Any ideas around this?

thanks,
rodchar

Make sure the drive you are copying to is formatted as NTFS as Fat32 has a
4gB file size limit.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

hey all,
i have an 8 GB file i need to copy from 1 external hard disk to
another external hard disk and it's saying i don't have enough room
to do the copy. I'm assuming that it's referring to my system drive
(C:\) which has 3 GB free space ? Any ideas around this?

If you're trying to put an 8GB file in 3GB, there are no ways around it,
except possibly by compressing it.

But are you sure that's the problem? If you're trying to copy to a FAT32
drive, FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB, and that may be what you're
runningup against.

 

[Tim Slattery]

hey all,
i have an 8 GB file i need to copy from 1 external hard disk to another
external hard disk and it's saying i don't have enough room to do the copy.
I'm assuming that it's referring to my system drive (C:\) which has 3 GB free
space ? Any ideas around this?

Probably has nothing to do with your C: drive. Most likely, the
destination drive is using the FAT32 file system, which can't handle
files larger than 4GB. The error message is misleading, but it's what
shows when you try to copy a too-big file to a FAT32 partition.

 

[Guest]

Thanks everyone FAT32 was the problem.

Make sure the drive you are copying to is formatted as NTFS as Fat32 has a
4gB file size limit.