Can't copy "large" file in Vista!

[Ptero]

When I was trying to copy a file of 20MB to D:\ from E:\, Vista poped out a
dialog saying that there is not enough disk space. However, I have about 30GB
free on my disk! I can't copy any file larger than 20MB. How to solve this?

[Michael Palumbo]

formatted FAT32?

If it is, there's your answer, FAT32 can't have files on it that are larger
than 4 gigabytes, that's the ceiling.

Unfortunately Windows won't tell you this in the error message, it will give
the error you're seeing, "not enough space to . . ."

You can convert the drive to NTFS, this will allow the large files to be
saved to the drive, but if it's a removable drive, or if it's shared with
any OS(s) that can't read NTFS you will lose access to the drive from those
operating systems.

Mic

[Ptero]

Thanks for replying.
My disk is in NTFS format. And my file is less than 4GB.
I restarted my compter, but it didn't work.
Then I restarted it again, it worked normally. That's weird.

[Michael Palumbo]

Oops, sorry.

I did state in another post that I'm partially blind, so I'm going to use
that as an excuse . . . <wink>

I read the 20MB as 20GB like a dope . . .

Run chkdsk on the drive and see if any errors are reported, this can cause
out of space errors to pop up sometimes.

Mic