Hard Drive error

[Guest Harish]

Hi,

 

I have 4.5 GB of data on my laptop hard disk and when I copy this data

to my 250 GB hard drive, it says that there is no space even though

there is lots of space. What is the cause of this error? Please

advise. Thanks

 

Swamy

[Guest Brian A.]

Re: Hard Drive error

 

"Harish" <mahadevan.swamy@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:d310ffef-2bc7-47b0-b37d-5d6e390b9a7a@y77g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,

>

> I have 4.5 GB of data on my laptop hard disk and when I copy this data

> to my 250 GB hard drive, it says that there is no space even though

> there is lots of space. What is the cause of this error? Please

> advise. Thanks

>

> Swamy

 

Please provide more information to help others help you.

Is the 250 GB drive new or is it a drive that's been in use for awhile?

If it's new did you format it?

Is it an external or internal drive?

 

If its been in use for some time, what's reported for the used/free space?

 

--

 

 

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }

Conflicts start where information lacks.

http://basconotw.mvps.org/

 

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: Hard Drive error

 

Is the target drive formatted FAT32? The filesize limit for FAT32 is 4GB.

If so, you can convert the drive to NTFS by opening a command window and

entering the command

 

convert [drive letter]: /fs:ntfs

 

"Harish" <mahadevan.swamy@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:d310ffef-2bc7-47b0-b37d-5d6e390b9a7a@y77g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,

>

> I have 4.5 GB of data on my laptop hard disk and when I copy this data

> to my 250 GB hard drive, it says that there is no space even though

> there is lots of space. What is the cause of this error? Please

> advise. Thanks

>

> Swamy

[Guest Harish]

Re: Hard Drive error

 

250 GB is an external hard drive and i have used it for a while. The

hard drive size is 232 GB out of which 23 GB of data is on it. I don't

know why i cant copy a 4.5 GB of data directly to this external hard

drive?

 

Colin, I dont understand what you are talking about. If you can

explain how i can transfer a 4.5 GB to this external hard drive, that

would be gr8. Thanks

 

On Mar 13, 1:24 am, "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote:

> "Harish" <mahadevan.sw...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>

> news:d310ffef-2bc7-47b0-b37d-5d6e390b9a7a@y77g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...

>

> > Hi,

>

> > I have 4.5 GB of data on my laptop hard disk and when I copy this data

> > to my 250 GB hard drive, it says that there is no space even though

> > there is lots of space. What is the cause of this error? Please

> > advise. Thanks

>

> > Swamy

>

> Please provide more information to help others help you.

> Is the 250 GB drive new or is it a drive that's been in use for awhile?

> If it's new did you format it?

> Is it an external or internal drive?

>

> If its been in use for some time, what's reported for the used/free space?

>

> --

>

> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }

> Conflicts start where information lacks.http://basconotw.mvps.org/

>

> Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Hard Drive error

 

The data must be in a file size of less than 4 GB if the file system on

the drive is FAT32. copy smaller files, OR change the file system of the

drive to NTFS.

 

Harish wrote:

> 250 GB is an external hard drive and i have used it for a while. The

> hard drive size is 232 GB out of which 23 GB of data is on it. I don't

> know why i cant copy a 4.5 GB of data directly to this external hard

> drive?

>

> Colin, I dont understand what you are talking about. If you can

> explain how i can transfer a 4.5 GB to this external hard drive, that

> would be gr8. Thanks

>

> On Mar 13, 1:24 am, "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote:

>

>>"Harish" <mahadevan.sw...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>>

>>news:d310ffef-2bc7-47b0-b37d-5d6e390b9a7a@y77g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...

>>

>>

>>>Hi,

>>

>>>I have 4.5 GB of data on my laptop hard disk and when I copy this data

>>>to my 250 GB hard drive, it says that there is no space even though

>>>there is lots of space. What is the cause of this error? Please

>>>advise. Thanks

>>

>>>Swamy

>>

>> Please provide more information to help others help you.

>>Is the 250 GB drive new or is it a drive that's been in use for awhile?

>>If it's new did you format it?

>>Is it an external or internal drive?

>>

>> If its been in use for some time, what's reported for the used/free space?

>>

>>--

>>

>>Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }

>>Conflicts start where information lacks.http://basconotw.mvps.org/

>>

>>Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

>>How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

>

>

[Guest Brian A.]

Re: Hard Drive error

 

Are you getting an error similar to "drive is full or Insufficient Disk Space"? If

you are, as Colin asked, is the drive formatted as FAT32 or NTFS? Also as Colin

stated, if it is FAT32 you are limited to 4GB max copying over any file(s). If you

are copying many files, only select enough files at a time to copy that will keep it

under the 4GB limit. If it's one large file you can try using a compression

application to bring the file down to size, keep in mind that there are certain files

that won't compress any smaller than they are that will make a difference. If that's

the case then the only other way would be to split the file or convert the drive to

NTFS.

 

If you choose to convert the drive to NTFS, Backup Any/All data that's on the drive

and you don't wish to lose in the event something goes wrong. For info see on

converting see: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm

 

--

 

 

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }

Conflicts start where information lacks.

http://basconotw.mvps.org/

 

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

 

"Harish" <mahadevan.swamy@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:d3da61ec-6db8-4b95-966f-073295bc66ee@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> 250 GB is an external hard drive and i have used it for a while. The

> hard drive size is 232 GB out of which 23 GB of data is on it. I don't

> know why i cant copy a 4.5 GB of data directly to this external hard

> drive?

>

> Colin, I dont understand what you are talking about. If you can

> explain how i can transfer a 4.5 GB to this external hard drive, that

> would be gr8. Thanks

>

> On Mar 13, 1:24 am, "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote:

>> "Harish" <mahadevan.sw...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>>

>> news:d310ffef-2bc7-47b0-b37d-5d6e390b9a7a@y77g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...

>>

>> > Hi,

>>

>> > I have 4.5 GB of data on my laptop hard disk and when I copy this data

>> > to my 250 GB hard drive, it says that there is no space even though

>> > there is lots of space. What is the cause of this error? Please

>> > advise. Thanks

>>

>> > Swamy

>>

>> Please provide more information to help others help you.

>> Is the 250 GB drive new or is it a drive that's been in use for awhile?

>> If it's new did you format it?

>> Is it an external or internal drive?

>>

>> If its been in use for some time, what's reported for the used/free space?

>>

>> --

>>

>> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }

>> Conflicts start where information lacks.http://basconotw.mvps.org/

>>

>> Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

>> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

>

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Hard Drive error

 

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:39:42 -0700 (PDT), Harish

<mahadevan.swamy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I have 4.5 GB of data on my laptop hard disk and when I copy this data

> to my 250 GB hard drive, it says that there is no space even though

> there is lots of space. What is the cause of this error? Please

> advise. Thanks

 

 

Is this 4.5GB a single file? And is the 250GB drive FAT32?

 

If so, be aware that FAT32 has a limit of 4GB for a single file.

Unfortunately, when you try to create a larger file on a FAT32 volume

you get that extremely misleading message.

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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