Why does XP think that the disk is full?

[Aloke Prasad]

I have an external USB drive H: (250 GB with 107 GB free). I'd like to copy
my E:\My Documents to that to backup my data, mostly e-mail and some videos
captured from my DV camera and edited by MovieMaker 2.

WinXP refuses, saying that the destination is full! Even if I try to copy a
13 GB AVI from my E: drive to the H: drive, I get the "There's not enough
space on the disk" error and the Disk Clean-up Wizard is suggested by XPPro.

Why is this happening? I have tons of free space on the destination drive!

 

[Guest]

What format is it ??? fat32 or 16 will only accept a 4 gb
file

 

[Aloke Prasad]

I forgot to mention: The destination drive is FAT32. The source drive is
NTFS. The file I'm trying to copy is called DV_002.AVI. It is 13 GB in
size.

I have Admin privileges on this system.
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I have an external USB drive H: (250 GB with 107 GB free). I'd like to copy
my E:\My Documents to that to backup my data, mostly e-mail and some videos
captured from my DV camera and edited by MovieMaker 2.

WinXP refuses, saying that the destination is full! Even if I try to copy a
13 GB AVI from my E: drive to the H: drive, I get the "There's not enough
space on the disk" error and the Disk Clean-up Wizard is suggested by XPPro.

Why is this happening? I have tons of free space on the destination

drive!

 

[Aloke Prasad]

Some more info:
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Destination drive (H
H:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume BACKUP created 9/27/2003 2:33 PM
Volume Serial Number is 196B-13E6
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
245,051,840 KB total disk space.
800 KB in 27 hidden files.
2,208 KB in 69 folders.
42,324,064 KB in 152 files.
202,724,736 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
7,657,870 total allocation units on disk.
6,335,148 allocation units available on disk.
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File I'm tying to copy
E:\My Documents\My Videos\DV Video Tapes\002>dir *.avi
Volume in drive E is Data
Volume Serial Number is 1C11-62FB

Directory of E:\My Documents\My Videos\DV Video Tapes\002

12/23/2003 05:01 PM 13,536,843,776 DV_002.avi
1 File(s) 13,536,843,776 bytes
0 Dir(s) 203,068,149,760 bytes free
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Source drive (E
E:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Data.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

244187968 KB total disk space.
45795372 KB in 6827 files.
2856 KB in 707 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
81000 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
198308740 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
61046992 total allocation units on disk.
49577185 allocation units available on disk.
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E:\My Documents\My Videos\DV Video Tapes\002>copy *.avi h:
DV_002.avi
There is not enough space on the disk.
0 file(s) copied.
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I'm completely flummoxed by this !!

 

[Guest]

4 gb is the max size file , re-format to nfts

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I forgot to mention: The destination drive is FAT32. The source
drive is NTFS. The file I'm trying to copy is called DV_002.AVI. It
is 13 GB in size.

FAT32 has a limit of 4GB (minus a few bytes) for any single file.
You can't write a 13GB FAT32 file.

 

[Matt Coy]

Aloke can convert his drive to NTFS, he does not need to re-format.

How to Convert FAT Disks to NTFS
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/managing/convertfat.asp

 

[Aloke Prasad]

Hmm. That is a problem. I want to keep the Backup drive as FAT32 (so that I
can access it easily from DOS boot diskettes etc.).

Can you suggest a utility that can split files and re-join them when needed?
WinZip?

 

[LVTravel]

Try this free file splitter/rejoiner http://www.dekabyte.com/filesplitter/

 

[Gary Tait]

Hmm. That is a problem. I want to keep the Backup drive as FAT32 (so that I
can access it easily from DOS boot diskettes etc.).

Can you suggest a utility that can split files and re-join them when needed?
WinZip?

Winzip will span zip files.

 

[Aloke Prasad]

Winzip will span zip files.

BTW, Winzip 9 beta is required to handle files larger than 4 GB.