unable to copy file to harddisk?

[sirpelidor]

hi,

I have a 6gb vm image I wanna copy to my D drive from a external hd, and window complains my D drive is full.

I then inspect the drive using TreeView and see I still have 43g left (I'm able to see invisible folders)

While I was trying to figure out how come I can't copy, and I noticed I have another vm image in another external hd which worth 20gb, and i can't copy those successfully.

As I was thinking if it has to do with permission... I then go back to the first 6gb vm and copy to my C:/ and sure enough, no problem!

In a nutshell, I have plenty of space in my D, but I can't copy a 6gb file into it. Yet I can copy it to my C hence there's no permission problem.

Any thoughts on that?

Thank you

[IcemanND]

How is the drive you want to copy to formatted? NTFS or FAT32?

[sirpelidor]

aahh thanks for the tips icemanND,

I totally forgot my laptop is running ntfs on C, and fat32 on D.

So I bet the vm image was created in ntfs or something...

any ways to convert it so I can copy the file to fat32 drive?

thanks!

[IcemanND]

It will have to be in files smaller than 2gb. Or convert the drive to ntfs.

[TheFlash428]

aahh thanks for the tips icemanND,

I totally forgot my laptop is running ntfs on C, and fat32 on D.

So I bet the vm image was created in ntfs or something...

any ways to convert it so I can copy the file to fat32 drive?

thanks!

What Iceman said..."Converting" the file isn't the problem, the problem is that FAT32 won't recognize files larger than 4GB.

(I think 2GB was the size limit for a partition in Windows NT, but I think the actually file size limit in a FAT32 formatted disk is 4GB...I could be wrong).

[IcemanND]

Sorry, Flash is correct, 4gb is the max file size on a FAT32 partition.

Brain had not received the full induction of caffeine yet this morning.