NTFS drive wont take large files!

[sunnywala]

the drive is formated NTFS and is empty. any ideas?


Please explain your question in much more detail so we can attempt to help.

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Memory/Storage Mod

 

[RebateMonger]

Error messages?
Exact wording would be most helpful.

 

[Rifter]

how large? error message? what OS? What NTFS version?

 

[sunnywala]

this is the ereor i'm getting
"there is not enough space on ___, you need an additional 6.98gb to copy these files"

its a 1tb drive, i'm not sure how to check the ntfs version

 

[Nothinman]

If you run 'chkdsk <drive>' what does it say? The version of NTFS doesn't matter but just verifying that it really is indeed NTFS is important.

 

[sunnywala]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>g:

G:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
The volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk
might report errors when no corruption is present.
Volume label is ummm.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
64 file records processed.
File verification completed.
0 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
82 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
64 security descriptors processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
9 data files processed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

1005958 KB total disk space.
21568 KB in 5 files.
96 KB in 11 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
7750 KB in use by the system.
7104 KB occupied by the log file.
976544 KB available on disk.

32768 bytes in each allocation unit.
31436 total allocation units on disk.
30517 allocation units available on disk.

G:\>

also the drive is showing as removable

 

[RebateMonger]

OK...there appears to be nothing wrong...

What happens when you try to copy single files of various size to it?

1 KB (approximately)
1 MB (approximately)
100 MB (approximately)
1 GB (approximately)
4 GB (or larger)

 

[Nothinman]

1005958 KB total disk space.

Am I reading that wrong or does that say the volume is ~1G?

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

1005958 KB total disk space.

Am I reading that wrong or does that say the volume is ~1G?

I looked at that earlier, counted the decimal points, and thought it read 1000 GB. You are right.....If it was 1000 GB, there'd be ten numbers there. There's seven, so it's 1 GB.

 

[sunnywala]

i thought that too, but was thinking its impossible... what should i do? its supposed to be a 1 tb for sure, thats what it shows in the drive properties

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: sunnywala
i thought that too, but was thinking its impossible... what should i do? its supposed to be a 1 tb for sure, thats what it shows in the drive properties

Look at the Disk Management panel in the "Computer Management" control panel. You should see a 1 TB hard drive with a 1 GB NTFS partition and an unused 999 GB region. The numbers won''t be quite that large, but you get the idea.

Presumably, you can just delete the 1 GB parition, create a new 1 TB NTFS partition, and format it.

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

1005958 KB total disk space.

Am I reading that wrong or does that say the volume is ~1G?

Yes, you're right. I also noticed and doubted myself for a minute or 2. Haven't seen that size for a while.

OP, in control panel, admin tools, there's a program that will show you the drives and their partition sizes.

Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management.

It could just be that you told it to partition to 1GB instead of 1000GB.

edit: RebateMonger beat me to it while I was looking for the names on my WinXP laptop.

 

[sunnywala]

i only see one partition and it is of 983mb
no option for partitions are showing, to create or delete.

edit...

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: sunnywala
i only see one partition and it is of 983mb
no option for partitions are showing, to create or delete.

When you right-mouse-click on that 1 GB parition, it doesn't show an option to "Delete Volume..."?

You ARE seeing a 998 GB area on the far right that's "Unallocated", correct? And there'd be be a right-mouse-click option for the unallocated region for "New Simple Volume....".

 

[taltamir]

is there a GRAY AREA after that partition? right click on it and select "create partition"

http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_management.htm

http://windowshelp.microsoft.c...-0860180129a71033.mspx

 

[Nothinman]

is there a GRAY AREA after that partition? right click on it and select "create partition"

It would make more sense to just delete the 1G partition and create a new one covering the whole drive.

 

[sunnywala]

let make it more clear...
i see only one partition of 983mb... there is no unallocated space(no gray area)... and no option to partition the drive.
options to extend. shrink or delete volume are all grayed out... i'm so confused

 

[Nothinman]

Then Windows sees the drive as ~1G so you need to start with why it's doing that.

 

[Nothinman]

Then Windows sees the drive as ~1G so you need to start with why it's doing that.

 

[RebateMonger]

What operating system and what service pack level?
XP Pro, XP Home, Vista Basic, Vista HP, etc.
SP1, SP2, SP3?
Hard drive model? Is it a commercial external drive, or is it an internal drive that you put into an external housing? If so, both drive model and external housing model, please?

 

[sunnywala]

vista ultimate x64...
its a Seagate Barracuda, certified replacement(or something like that).... it was a replacement for an internal OEM that i bought from newegg...(the one OEM part i bought...figures)
is there something i should check in the bios? or do i need some kind of partition software?

 

[RebateMonger]

Offhand, it could be a defective drive. There's been some weird problems with failing large Seagate drives showing strange sizes...much lower than the size of the drive.

Your PC with Vista x64 should have no problem partitioning a 1 TB hard drive.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: sunnywala
let make it more clear...
i see only one partition of 983mb... there is no unallocated space(no gray area)... and no option to partition the drive.
options to extend. shrink or delete volume are all grayed out... i'm so confused

sounds like a borked drive, RMA it.

 

[sunnywala]

will do... thanks guys