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| False 'out of disk space' error when copying large (multi-Gb) files between hard-drives An issue I often see is when I want to copy a very large file (of the order of 5-10Gb) from one hard drive to another, the copy operation fails, informing me that I don't have enough disk space, even though there is more ample space on both the source and destination drives (more than double the size of the file). I come upon this often as we use Virtual PC and move virtual hard drive files around a lot. Can anyone advise on common causes of this false error, and on any tweaks I can make so that copy will work? I've tried things like turning system restore off, but that doesn't work.      |
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| Re: False 'out of disk space' error when copying large (multi-Gb) files between hard-drives "CharlesT" <charleshlt@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message news:%23oyzzxzKHHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > An issue I often see is when I want to copy a very large file (of the order > of 5-10Gb) from one hard drive to another, the copy operation fails, > informing me that I don't have enough disk space, even though there is more > ample space on both the source and destination drives (more than double the > size of the file). I come upon this often as we use Virtual PC and move > virtual hard drive files around a lot. > > Can anyone advise on common causes of this false error, and on any tweaks I > can make so that copy will work? I've tried things like turning system > restore off, but that doesn't work. > If your target partition uses FAT32 instead of NTFS then you will be limited to 4 GBytes per file. |
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| Re: False 'out of disk space' error when copying large (multi-Gb) files between hard-drives That was it - thx. "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:uswkS7zKHHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > "CharlesT" <charleshlt@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message > news:%23oyzzxzKHHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> An issue I often see is when I want to copy a very large file (of the > order >> of 5-10Gb) from one hard drive to another, the copy operation fails, >> informing me that I don't have enough disk space, even though there is > more >> ample space on both the source and destination drives (more than double > the >> size of the file). I come upon this often as we use Virtual PC and move >> virtual hard drive files around a lot. >> >> Can anyone advise on common causes of this false error, and on any tweaks > I >> can make so that copy will work? I've tried things like turning system >> restore off, but that doesn't work. >> > > If your target partition uses FAT32 instead of NTFS then > you will be limited to 4 GBytes per file. > > |
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