Can't move large .avi to external drive (even tho' there's room)

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I have a 100Gb qMemoryDrive that has about 50Gb free, however when I
try to move a 10Gb .avi file to it, it says there is not enough room!

I've tried ckdisk, defragging but everytime I try to drag that file
over to the drive it give me that message.

The File System for my c:/ drive is NTFS and the File System for the
external is FAT32, could this have anything to do with it?

Why does the extrernal drive think it doesn't have enough room?


TIA!
 
I have a 100Gb qMemoryDrive that has about 50Gb free, however when I
try to move a 10Gb .avi file to it, it says there is not enough room!

I've tried ckdisk, defragging but everytime I try to drag that file
over to the drive it give me that message.

The File System for my c:/ drive is NTFS and the File System for the
external is FAT32, could this have anything to do with it?
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Yes. FAT32 has a limit of 4GB for a single file.

Why does the extrernal drive think it doesn't have enough room?
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That's the standard message you get in this circumstance. Unfortunately the
message is misleading.
 
(e-mail address removed),
I have a 100Gb qMemoryDrive that has about 50Gb free,
however when I try to move a 10Gb .avi file to it, it says
there is not enough room!

I've tried ckdisk, defragging but everytime I try to drag
that file over to the drive it give me that message.

The File System for my c:/ drive is NTFS and the File System
for the external is FAT32, could this have anything to do
with it?

Why does the extrernal drive think it doesn't have enough
room?


TIA!
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FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB. If you want to store files
larger than that you'll have to convert your external drive to
NTFS.

"Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463

Converting FAT32 to NTFS
http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to the NTFS File
System
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314097

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
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