file too large, not enough disk space to copy

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I was trying to copy a folder from my main hard drive to an external hard
drive. I have 512M memory and over 100 gig free space on both drives. I had a
10 gig media file in the folder. I received a popup that said it could not
complete the copy because there was insufficient disk space. What happen?
 
G

Guest

Patti,
that is it, been using NTFS for so long did not think that the external
drive would be formatted differently. Thanks for help.
 
G

Guest

Hi cfb3,

Is the external hard drive formatted for FAT32 file system? If so, then that
might be the problem, as FAT32 has a file size limit of a little less than
4GB.



Regards,
 

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