Copying problem with Gigabyte files

[H.Henkler]

Trying to transfer (copy/cut and insert) files to an extern hard disc drive I get an
error message:
"The file cannot be copied. Not sufficient storage capacity on the storage media.
Delete files in order to provide additional storage capacity und repeat procedure".

Facts:
Windows XP, file sizes 5 GB up to 12 GB (AVI-files).
There is about 50 BG free drive space on drive C, where the files are now.
There is 500 GB free drive space on the new extern drive.

How can I make the system copy and insert the big files?

 

[thecreator]

Hi H,

Run Disk Cleanup and Chkdsk /r on both Hard Drives and see what happens.


--
thecreator

Trying to transfer (copy/cut and insert) files to an extern hard disc drive I get an error message:
"The file cannot be copied. Not sufficient storage capacity on the storage media.
Delete files in order to provide additional storage capacity und repeat procedure".
Facts:
Windows XP, file sizes 5 GB up to 12 GB (AVI-files).
There is about 50 BG free drive space on drive C, where the files are now.
There is 500 GB free drive space on the new extern drive.

How can I make the system copy and insert the big files?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Trying to transfer (copy/cut and insert) files to an extern
hard disc drive I get an error message:
The file cannot be copied. Not sufficient storage capacity on
the storage media. Delete files in order to provide additional
storage capacity und repeat procedure.

Facts:
Windows XP, file sizes 5 GB up to 12 GB (AVI-files).
There is about 50 BG free drive space on drive C, where the files are
now.
There is 500 GB free drive space on the new extern drive.

How can I make the system copy and insert the big files?

Please do not multipost in the future. If you feel your question really
needs to be in more than one newsgroup - crosspost instead. That makes it
easier for you to check your answers and will not annoy those who might see
it in more than one newsgroup.

Change/format the external drive with NTFS instead of the FAT32 it is likely
now...

 

[H.Henkler]

Change/format the external drive with NTFS instead of the FAT32 it is likely
now...
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP

Thanks for your help. I have transferred already hundreds of files from drive C to the
external harddrive without any problem. The biggest file transferred has 3.4 GB.
There must be a limitation somewhere in the system resources / memory settings causing
the trouble. Any suggestion?

Herb

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Trying to transfer (copy/cut and insert) files to an extern
hard disc drive I get an error message:
The file cannot be copied. Not sufficient storage capacity on
the storage media. Delete files in order to provide additional
storage capacity und repeat procedure.

Facts:
Windows XP, file sizes 5 GB up to 12 GB (AVI-files).
There is about 50 BG free drive space on drive C, where the files are
now.
There is 500 GB free drive space on the new extern drive.

How can I make the system copy and insert the big files?

Please do not multipost in the future. If you feel your question
really needs to be in more than one newsgroup - crosspost instead. That
makes it easier for you to check your answers and will not
annoy those who might see it in more than one newsgroup.

Change/format the external drive with NTFS instead of the FAT32 it
is likely now...

Thanks for your help.
I have transferred already hundreds of files from drive
C to the external harddrive without any problem.
The biggest file transferred has 3.4 GB.
There must be a limitation somewhere in the system
resources / memory settings causing the trouble.
Any suggestion?

Suggestion does not change. You originally stated, "file sizes 5 GB up to
12 GB" and if you want to be able to store those on your external hard disk
drive - it cannot be formatted FAT32 and considering where you are posting
(one copy of) your questions (Windows XP Help & Support) you need a file
system that Windows XP supports read/write on natively. That would be NTFS
that will cover all those needs.

As I said - change or format the external drive with NTFS instead of FAT32
that it likely is now. FAT32 will not allow you to copy files over 4GB in
size. You can 'convert' the file system - but I suggest you have a backup
of everything on it before you do and since this is an external drive - that
pretty much makes it just as easy to copy everything off, format it and copy
everything back. However - if you are feeling like it shouldn't cause any
issues - defragment the USB drive and then open a command prompt and type
in:

convert /?

That will get you the command line you need to convert (with data hopefully
intact) the FAT32 format into NTFS.

 

[H.Henkler]

Suggestion does not change. You originally stated, "file sizes 5 GB up to
12 GB" and if you want to be able to store those on your external hard disk
drive - it cannot be formatted FAT32 and considering where you are posting
(one copy of) your questions (Windows XP Help & Support) you need a file
system that Windows XP supports read/write on natively. That would be NTFS
that will cover all those needs.

As I said - change or format the external drive with NTFS instead of FAT32
that it likely is now. FAT32 will not allow you to copy files over 4GB in
size. You can 'convert' the file system - but I suggest you have a backup
of everything on it before you do and since this is an external drive - that
pretty much makes it just as easy to copy everything off, format it and copy
everything back. However - if you are feeling like it shouldn't cause any
issues - defragment the USB drive and then open a command prompt and type
in:

convert /?

That will get you the command line you need to convert (with data hopefully
intact) the FAT32 format into NTFS.

Many thanks to everyone involved. After converting the external drive from FAT to NTFS
the problem has been solved.
Took me some time to save (move to other partition) all those files that had already
been stored on the external drive before converting.
Herb