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SOLVED I'M DUMB: WinXP won't let me copy 8gb to external firewire device

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wfay

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Basically the title/summary cover it. I have a 40gb external firewire hard drive connected to my laptop. I have the hard drive divided into (1) 10gb and (1) 30gb partitions.

The 10gb is completely empty.
The 30gb is half used.

I am attempting to copy an 8gb file to the device. Windows reports "Cannot copy: There is not enough free disk space" error when I attempt to copy or move the file.

My laptop is down to 4gb free which is why I am attempting to offload some files. But this is ridiculous.

I just created a new text file, named it, opened it and added some sample text to it, saved it, and that all worked just fine. I guess my next step is to find a 1gb file and see if that copies, then 500mb if not or 2gb if it does, etc.

Thanks for any ideas! I've used this device without issues until now...
 
there was a 2 gig file size limit with fat32, but i would have thought that wouldn't be the prob.

Try it with a 1.5gig [just to be on the safe side what with 1K=1024kb etc]
 
M:\>chkdsk m:
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume FW1 created 9/9/2004 2:10 PM
Volume Serial Number is 7EA4-C3FE
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
30,701,232 KB total disk space.
64 KB in 4 hidden files.
112 KB in 7 folders.
14,408,128 KB in 52 files.
16,292,912 KB are available.

16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,918,827 total allocation units on disk.
1,018,307 allocation units available on disk.

n:\>chkdsk n:
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume FW2 created 9/9/2004 2:11 PM
Volume Serial Number is CCDB-F6B2
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
9,477,104 KB total disk space.
32 KB in 4 hidden files.
32 KB in 4 folders.
48 KB in 5 files.
9,476,984 KB are available.

8,192 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,184,638 total allocation units on disk.
1,184,623 allocation units available on disk.

Sometimes you just want to kill yourself for your own stupidity. 😀
 
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