3.99GB Limit On Recycle Bin

[James G.]

Why is it when I put my recycle bin to 10% on my 120GB
hard drive I am only allocated 3.99GB? Is there a fix or
workaround for this? Please Help, I have searched the
entire internet and find very few resources on this topic.
I understand the limits on previous versions of Windows,
but XP should be able to support more than 3.99GB.

Thanks,

James G.

 

[Nick Burns]

I have not hit this limit, but I am going to test to see. Why do you want to
keep that much trash..? I will let you know in a short what mine does. I
have a 13 gig avi.

 

[Nick Burns]

The 13gig went to the can just fine. Where did you see your allocated space
at...?

 

[D.Currie]

Why is it when I put my recycle bin to 10% on my 120GB
hard drive I am only allocated 3.99GB? Is there a fix or
workaround for this? Please Help, I have searched the
entire internet and find very few resources on this topic.
I understand the limits on previous versions of Windows,
but XP should be able to support more than 3.99GB.

Thanks,

James G.

Is your drive formatted fat32 or NTFS? If it's fat32, it might have
something to do with the fact that fat32 has a 4gb file size limit.

 

[Nick Burns]

Eureka That's it..!

Is your drive formatted fat32 or NTFS? If it's fat32, it might have
something to do with the fact that fat32 has a 4gb file size limit.