Not enough disk space? But i have 20gb free!

• polarsnake

  23 Sep 09, 20:42

  Hi, i have an annoying problem that i would like you guys to help diagnose for me.
  
  I have a file that is 4.5GB large, however, when i try to copy it into my thumbdrive with a free space of 20GB, a message pops up saying that I do not have enough disk space, and asks me to clear some data. What's wrong?

• Shao Wei

  23 Sep 09, 20:50

  defrag your harddisc.

   

• lifelikedrama

  23 Sep 09, 20:51

  maybe there's a disk volume error? right click on the drive and click properties. on one of the tabs, there's a button to check for disk volume error. u can try that. if not, then I recommend u to transfer ur stuff to another place, then reformat the harddisk. I'm not sure if defrag might help. at least this is what I'll do... not sure if it helps...
• Keii

  23 Sep 09, 20:53

  Might be a problem with your thumbdrive's file system. NTFS and FAT32, can never remember the differences.

   

  Then again, are you transferring that 4.5gb file from a Mac into an NTFS-format thumbdrive?

• polarsnake

  23 Sep 09, 21:14

  oh i know le, FAT format cannot transfer more than 4GB of data. Must switch to NTFS.

• Keii

  23 Sep 09, 21:18

  Originally posted by polarsnake:

  oh i know le, FAT format cannot transfer more than 4GB of data. Must switch to NTFS.

   

  There you go.

• GIB

  23 Sep 09, 22:03

  Were u by any chance copying that file to the root folder of the thumb drive?
  
  If ya, try create a sub-folder and copy the file into this sub-folder.
  
  If no, then can ignore this post.