XP Pro cant copy large file to external drive with plenty of space

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I just got a 250 Gig external drive connected via USB, and tried to copy over
a very large file (5Gig Sql Server data file) for backup, and XP gives me a
bogus error message saying the disk doesnt have enough room and aborts the
transfer. The disk has almost 220 Gig free. I suspect some sort of integer
overflow error with XP calculating available space, but is there a fix?

 

[Alasdair]

www.digitalmystic.co.uk

I just got a 250 Gig external drive connected via USB, and tried to copy
over
a very large file (5Gig Sql Server data file) for backup, and XP gives me
a
bogus error message saying the disk doesnt have enough room and aborts the
transfer. The disk has almost 220 Gig free. I suspect some sort of
integer
overflow error with XP calculating available space, but is there a fix?

the external drive is probably fat32 therefore cant hold a file bigger than
4? gig split the file up
Alasdair

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You need to reformat or convert your external drive to NTFS.

Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm

[Courtesy of Alex Nichol, MS-MVP]

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I just got a 250 Gig external drive connected via USB, and tried to copy over
| a very large file (5Gig Sql Server data file) for backup, and XP gives me a
| bogus error message saying the disk doesnt have enough room and aborts the
| transfer. The disk has almost 220 Gig free. I suspect some sort of integer
| overflow error with XP calculating available space, but is there a fix?