Re: Problem Copying a Large File
From: The Lurker At The Threshold (sheenaelghund_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/04/05
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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:58:52 GMT
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." <Steve_N@nunya.biz.nes> wrote in message
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> The Lurker At The Threshold wrote:
>
>> 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
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