I just got an external western digital 500gb HDD for christmas and im trying to transfer files from my internal 500gb (which is also a WD) to the external and this is twice that its told me it cant copy a file because there isnt enough space on the external HDD when theres more then enough space. the first time it said it there was only 25gb used. has anyone ever had this problem before?

is the partition on the external disk big enough?

Is it formatted NTFS ? If not, you could have problems transfering very big files like DVD iso (>4Gig).

the external drive says used:109GB free:356GB and i always thought it was formatted NTFS, i was sure it was until i just checked its FAT32. I guess ill start transferring files back to the internal and then format it NTFS and see what happens, thanks.

Edited December 26, 200718 yr by Brando569

Do you have any files that are more than 4 GB, for the file alone?

that's weird it was formated FAt32. You can always convert the drive using autoconv.exe

-gosh