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Move/Copy large files to slave HD
Name: Sub Date: January 26, 2008 at 17:10:38 Pacific OS: Windows XP sp2 CPU/Ram: Athlon 64 2800 CPU / 1g d Product: Self Bulit System, Asus m
Comment:
I got new 320GB HD to free up space on my Local Drive. But the problem is Windows Xp won't copy or move large files to the spare HD. Comes up with error not enough disk space. but i have 238GB spare the files are only 4Gb and 6Gb.
Name: Razor2.3 Date: January 26, 2008 at 17:16:14 Pacific
Reply:
My guess: Your second HDD is formatted with FAT32, and not NTFS.
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: January 26, 2008 at 17:53:28 Pacific
Reply:
In other words, FAT32 brain is so small it can only read files up to nearly 4 gigabyte (GB), whereas in NTFS the maximum size file that can be handled is 16 EiB (EiB = exbibyte; a contraction of exa binary byte, and equaling 1152921504606846976 bytes).
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Response Number 3
Name: Sub Date: January 26, 2008 at 22:22:02 Pacific
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Name: Sub
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