[Doggan]

I am trying to transfer a 4GB file to my external hard drive, which is said to have (under My Computer) 46.3GB free. It keeps giving me a "Cannot copy file... not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free up space then try again"... error.

I've rebooted, and I am sure there is more than 4GB free on the hard drive. Any ideas? Is there some max size for a file that you can transfer to a hard drive? I've never heard of that.. but I guess anything is possible.

Thanks for reading!

[Rollin' Rog]

How is the disk formatted, Fat32 or NTFS? Fat32 has a file size limit of 4gb - 1 byte according to this:


http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_tdrn.asp

[Doggan]

Thanks for that link! That's the problem: It is a Fat32 partition. Now to figure out how to break up the file

[rasputinj]

Originally Posted by Doggan

Thanks for that link! That's the problem: It is a Fat32 partition. Now to figure out how to break up the file

Why don't you just convert the partition to NFTS?

[Rollin' Rog]

If you do convert, there may be a caveat to consider:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php