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September 11th 08, 06:01 PM
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External Hard Drives
Why do I get an error message when i try to transfer a windows backup file
from my computer to an external hard drive? Its says there is no free disk space. I have defraged the drive. It says it has 426GB free and the files is 27GB this error only pops-up when i try to copy the file onto it. 
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September 11th 08, 06:06 PM
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A 27 GB file????????
"rich@HD" wrote in message ... Why do I get an error message when i try to transfer a windows backup file from my computer to an external hard drive? Its says there is no free disk space. I have defraged the drive. It says it has 426GB free and the files is 27GB this error only pops-up when i try to copy the file onto it.
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September 11th 08, 06:15 PM
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Most external hard drives are formatted with FAT32, which supports a
maximum file size of 4 GB. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est rich@HD wrote: Why do I get an error message when i try to transfer a windows backup file from my computer to an external hard drive? Its says there is no free disk space. I have defraged the drive. It says it has 426GB free and the files is 27GB this error only pops-up when i try to copy the file onto it.
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September 11th 08, 06:39 PM
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Reformat the drive using the NTFS file system, fat32 only supports file
sizes up to 4GB. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Help Us Help You http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "rich@HD" wrote in message ... Why do I get an error message when i try to transfer a windows backup file from my computer to an external hard drive? Its says there is no free disk space. I have defraged the drive. It says it has 426GB free and the files is 27GB this error only pops-up when i try to copy the file onto it.
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