"Ptero" <Ptero@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2932F5BE-F5BC-428E-859A-C352108423D2@xxxxxx
Quote:
> 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?
Is the destination drive 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