Hi. Just wondering if there is an "issue" here. I just bought a 250 Gb external harddrive made by freecom. I've copied roughly 120Gb's of stuff to it so far and now it keeps saying that there is no more space! The properties is still showing 125Gb+ free so is there some issue with FAT32 and winXP that I'm not aware of when trying to copy to a partition that is over 125Gb's in size? I'm confused. Any help would be gud. The drive is just "as it came" in format. I simply plugged it in and off I went. It says in "manage" ---> Disk manager that it's 250Gb's and is set to FAT32 and is a healthy drive. Cheers Dave

Are you trying to copy this and that data from one drive to another, or are you trying to copy an entire partition? Are any of the files really huge files such as movies? Is the drive partition you are copying from NTFS or FAT32? If you are trying to copy an entire partition, what are you using to try to do that? XP, or a third party program such as Partition Magic or a utility provided by a hard drive manufacturer, etc. ?

Hi there. Thx for the reply Nope, I'm just copying files. I'm not copying a partition. Yes, I'm copying big AVI files for video editing. They are around 7 - 13 gb's in size. is this an issue? NOTE. I've copied 125 Gb's of these files already. (same sizes etc)I've checked to see if the drive need defragmenting, it says it does not. I've scandisked it. No probs again. It simply tells me the drive does not have enough space. And yes, the systems drives I have with my Win XP on are NTFS file system. I'm assumong the external drive comes formated as FAT32 so it's can work with many computer. Cheers Dave

FAT32 will work with many computers but unlike NTFS it will not accept files whose size is near 4GB and over. i_XpUser

Since you are copying files larger than ~4gb, to do what you want to do you must either: - start over and delete the FAT32 partition on the external drive and partition all of it or at least part of it to NTFS, and format it, and copy files larger than 4gb to the NTFS partition - OR you could use a third party program or utility (e.g. Partition Magic 8.x) to re-size the FAT32 partition smaller and make an additional NTFS partition on the drive you can copy files larger than 4gb to, or you could convert the partition to NTFS without losing the data already on it, then copy the other files you want to copy to it.

Thx for the info. I had no idea that FAT32 didn't do files over 4Gb. And now looking at the stuff I've already copied. The files were all just under 4Gb's until this next lot that are all over. Will start over. NTFS is all I need to use. Cheers again. Dave.