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" wrote:
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> "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?
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> Is the destination drive formatted FAT32?
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> If it is, there's your answer, FAT32 can't have files on it that are larger
> than 4 gigabytes, that's the ceiling.
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> Unfortunately Windows won't tell you this in the error message, it will give
> the error you're seeing, "not enough space to . . ."
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> 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.
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> Mic
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