USB HDD problem

[MikeM]

I have been using a 30 G HDD as a USB drive for some time without
problems but today when I tried to copy a 4 G compressed file to it I
got the message that there was insufficient space. There was 13 G of
free space. I ran Norton System Works 2006 Disk Doctor with the free
space box checked and Microsoft disk check disk but I still get the
same message.

Thanks
MikeM

 

[Simon]

I have been using a 30 G HDD as a USB drive for some time without
problems but today when I tried to copy a 4 G compressed file to it I
got the message that there was insufficient space. There was 13 G of
free space. I ran Norton System Works 2006 Disk Doctor with the free
space box checked and Microsoft disk check disk but I still get the
same message.

Thanks
MikeM

Sounds like it's formatted as fat32 not ntfs, fat32 has a 4gig max file
size limit.
simon

 

[MikeM]

It is.

Mike

Sounds like it's formatted as fat32 not ntfs, fat32 has a 4gig max file
size limit.
simon

 

[Bill's Dead]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx