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Hi all,

long time no chat

I have a strange problem. I want to copy a 4.3GB .rar file to my USB backup disc. Iomega 500GB ac powered drive.

Now it tells me that there is not enough disc space. But there is! I have 100GB free.

I delete 9 GBs of files - still tells me there is not enough space when I try again.

However I can copy a 13GB directory with all its contents to the drive. So the space is obviously there!

Also I have no problem copying the 4.3GB .rar to any other drive, even to other PCs on my network - so the file seems to be OK, too!

And I can copy 2BG .rar files to the USB disc. So:

a) disc space is obviously available
b) file can be copied to other discs ( I also extracted it) so it's fine.
c) I can copy 2GB files fine, but 4GB files it tells me there's not enough space

Go figure!! Any ideas wth is going on there?

Cheers

KC

P.S.: I've now tried different files, .rars and ISOs with 4GB or more and I get that same error always

is the drive formatted to ntfs, if not anything over 4gb it'll never copy to it

its why all dvd movies are always broken into 1gig chunks

What Mojo said. I can almost guarantee that your external drive is formatted in FAT32.

You can use the Windows NTFS converter utility: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314097

Partition Magic will also convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS.

Argh! Of course! Didn't see the woods for the trees!

Thanks for that!

KC

Doh, this was an easy one & I didn't have a chance to get to it in time. I ran into this real quick back when I was running win98 & started into video editing.