Problem Copying a Large File

[The Lurker At The Threshold]

I have 2 external hard drives. I am attempting to copy a large (4.19 GB)
file from one to the other. Tje destination drive has 32 GB of free space
but each time I attempt to do the copy,Windows tells me there is not enough
space available on the target drive.

I am mystified.

Any suggestions?

Sheena

 

[Steve N.]

I have 2 external hard drives. I am attempting to copy a large (4.19 GB)
file from one to the other. Tje destination drive has 32 GB of free space
but each time I attempt to do the copy,Windows tells me there is not enough
space available on the target drive.

I am mystified.

Any suggestions?

Sheena

The drive is FAT32 file system, right? If so FAT32 has a file size limit
of one byte less than 4GB. Back up the files on it to another drive and
format it using NTFS file system. You could alternately convert it from
FAT32 to NTFS but it may be easier for you to re-format it plus that way
you'll get the optimum cluster size and not have to fiddle with any of
that. Additionally, before converting the file system you should back up
the files anyway just in case something goes awry.

If you need more details on how to do this post back.

Steve

 

[The Lurker At The Threshold]

Thanks. It is FAT 32. Assumed is was NTFS, since all the other drives are,
but I guess I forgot to convert it when I installed XP all those moon's ago.
One other thing puzzles me, however...
Earlier today a wrote a disk image to the FAT32 drive that Windows reads as
4,089,466KB. How can this be? Or is 3.9+ GB being rounded up?

Sheena

 

[Ron Sommer]

1024 * 1024 * 4 = 4,194,604
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Ron Sommer

Thanks. It is FAT 32. Assumed is was NTFS, since all the other drives are,
but I guess I forgot to convert it when I installed XP all those moon's
ago.
One other thing puzzles me, however...
Earlier today a wrote a disk image to the FAT32 drive that Windows reads
as 4,089,466KB. How can this be? Or is 3.9+ GB being rounded up?

Sheena

 

[Steve N.]

Thanks. It is FAT 32. Assumed is was NTFS, since all the other drives are,
but I guess I forgot to convert it when I installed XP all those moon's ago.
One other thing puzzles me, however...
Earlier today a wrote a disk image to the FAT32 drive that Windows reads as
4,089,466KB. How can this be? Or is 3.9+ GB being rounded up?

Sheena

You can think of it that way but it has to do with calcualting based on
bytes vs kilobytes.

Steve