Copy Problem

Hi all,
I have an external 250 GB HDD(just 2 weeks old) which I’m using as a backup device.
I put all my music on it c. 5 GB (no problem)
I put all my downloaded applications on it c.6 GB (no problem)
Now I want to put all my DVD ISO’s on it I’m having problems.
I keep getting the following error:

Cannot copy: There is not enough free disk space
Delete one or mere files....etc



I’m using NTFS on my computer and FAT32 on the external HDD.
Win XP Home SP2 with all updates.
I have plenty of free space on all drives on my system.
I’ve tried Copy/Paste Drag/Drop and Send To (same error)




TIA. mickzer.

 

Hi PeteC.
Darn it I forgot all about that .I formatted it as FAT32 so that win98 could see it. I suppose I could format it again (Half as FAT32/Half as NTFS). I AM right in thinking Win98 will not see it as NTFS??Am I also correct in thinking that all my music copied over in one go (even though it was more than the limit) because it was made-up of a lot of smaller files?and ditto with my downloaded applications?

TIA mickzer.

 

You should be ok doing this so long as you back up the files that are currently on the partition somehow. I've done it myself by copying the data on the partition to another one and then using Disk Management to delete it and recreate the new partitions.

 

There is a third party plugin that will allow win98 to see data on ntfs but it will only be read only.

 

Hi PeteC,

I did as you suggested and divided the 250GB into two partitions in Computer Management > Disk Management. I formatted the first one in NTFS…No problem.
I then tried to do the same with the second one, except in FAT32…It wouldn’t let me do it "¦Only choice = NTFS. I then went into Run > cmd "¦ And typed FORMAT E:/FS: FAT32 and it let me go all the way through to the end "¦before telling me that the Volume was too big(Another FAT32 limitation). Anyway, I divided that partition further (into 3) , went back to cmd and went through it all again….SUCCESS .Copied everything over again "¦no problems whatsoever.
BTW Even with a small enough partition Disk Management will not let me format as FAT32.

Thanks for all your help Pete. How is it nothing is ever as easy as it should be with computers??

mickzer.

 

just my .02 here ... if u've got a network setup, shared drives do not care what format they are ... u could easily setup the whole drive as NTFS on one machine, then share that volume and all u'r clients can read/write to it via the network.


above also has the advantage of letting a single OS manage the volume properties etc. like permission which are much more sophisticated on an NTFS wolume. eg - while u CAN get a prog like NTFS-dos (the 3rd party app inidcated in a previous post i think), it CAN be problematic doing so since each 'write' OS can change the attributes. the network share method sorta makes the local file system transparent ... and ... to me at least ... much safer that way

 

XP won't format a partition larger than 32GB with FAT32. It can read them (larger ones) fine but if you want to create one larger you have to use another OS or program to format them. I've used good old Fdisk from win98 in the past. It works fine.

Windows XP/2000 FAT32 Formatting Limit

And if that's not enough, here's one from MS.

Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems