False 'out of disk space' error when copying large (multi-Gb) files between hard-drives

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An issue I often see is when I want to copy a very large file (of the order
of 5-10Gb) from one hard drive to another, the copy operation fails,
informing me that I don't have enough disk space, even though there is more
ample space on both the source and destination drives (more than double the
size of the file). I come upon this often as we use Virtual PC and move
virtual hard drive files around a lot.

Can anyone advise on common causes of this false error, and on any tweaks I
can make so that copy will work? I've tried things like turning system
restore off, but that doesn't work.
 
CharlesT said:
An issue I often see is when I want to copy a very large file (of the order
of 5-10Gb) from one hard drive to another, the copy operation fails,
informing me that I don't have enough disk space, even though there is more
ample space on both the source and destination drives (more than double the
size of the file). I come upon this often as we use Virtual PC and move
virtual hard drive files around a lot.

Can anyone advise on common causes of this false error, and on any tweaks I
can make so that copy will work? I've tried things like turning system
restore off, but that doesn't work.
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If your target partition uses FAT32 instead of NTFS then
you will be limited to 4 GBytes per file.
 

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