firewire drive is not full, but XP says it is

[Koby Crooks]

I have an external 20GB firewire hard drive that I am trying to transfer a
7GB file to. I formatted the hard drive completely so that there was
nothing on it and XP is giving me an error message that says there is
not enough room on the drive. I then look at the properties of the drive
and it says that there is over 18GB of drive space available so I know
there is enough room. I try to run Disk Cleaner and it says that it
cannot free any disk space on the drive (because it is already empty).
Anyone have any suggesstions as to what I should do differently/next?
Thanks

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I am not sure but I do recall that XP has problems saving a file to a FAT32
partition that is larger that 2GB.

What partition format (FAT32 or NTFS) is used on the firewire drive??

Y.

I have an external 20GB firewire hard drive that I am trying to transfer a
7GB file to. I formatted the hard drive completely so that there was
nothing on it and XP is giving me an error message that says there is
not enough room on the drive. I then look at the properties of the drive
and it says that there is over 18GB of drive space available so I know
there is enough room. I try to run Disk Cleaner and it says that it
cannot free any disk space on the drive (because it is already empty).
Anyone have any suggesstions as to what I should do differently/next?
Thanks

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Yves.

Your recollection is not quite right. WinXP (and Win2K) cannot FORMAT a >32
GB volume as FAT32. However, Win9x/ME can format a volume as large as ~127
GB as FAT32. Once formatted, Win2K/XP can happily use the whole volume.

For details, see this page from the online version of the WinXP Pro Resource
Kit:
Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp


Koby, what does Disk Management tell you about that drive? (At the Run
prompt, type: diskmgmt.msc) HOW did you format that drive: Format.exe?
Disk Management? Proprietary program from the drive maker? Did you format
it with WinXP, or in Win9x/ME, or in a different computer?

RC

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

The drive wouldn't be formatted FAT16 would it? Since it sounds you are
only getting about 2GB saved and that's the maximum file size for FAT16,
unless you've been able to format extended FAT16, although I haven't seen
that option since WinNT 4.0

I have an external 20GB firewire hard drive that I am trying to transfer a
7GB file to. I formatted the hard drive completely so that there was
nothing on it and XP is giving me an error message that says there is
not enough room on the drive. I then look at the properties of the drive
and it says that there is over 18GB of drive space available so I know
there is enough room. I try to run Disk Cleaner and it says that it
cannot free any disk space on the drive (because it is already empty).
Anyone have any suggesstions as to what I should do differently/next?
Thanks

 

[David Vair]

Are you trying to do a move or copy, I have seen instances where a file can not be moved but can be
copied because the system is trying to access the file or the permissions are preventing the move.

 

[Vider]

Yves is right. As he said, 2GB file, not 2GB partition.
If the partition is FAT32 then a single file cannot be
larger than 2GB. Either re-format the drive as NTFS or
split the file up into segments with a file splitter.
Personally, I would just use NTFS.

If the drive is partitioned as NTFS, then I'm stumped.

 

[John E. Carty]

FAT32 has a 4GB file limitation. However, many applications have the 2GB
limitation

 

[R. C. White]

Whoops!! Thank you, Vider, for correcting that.

Sorry, Yves. :^{

RC

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Yves.

Whoops! My goof!

As Vider pointed out, you were talking about the FILE size; I read it as
PARTITION size. :^{ What I said was right, but so was your recollection.

RC