Not enough memory error when transferring a lot of files (2ghz ram)

[Messy]

Not enough memory error when transferring a lot of files (3 gigs ram)

Hi.

I'm trying to find out why my RAM is being drained while transferring files when it didn't on my old machine.

I've just built myself a new rig ... at the moment everything is running as stock (no overclocking etc.)This is the basics of my set up:

Intel Core 2 DUO E6700
Asus P5B-E Plus (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro Extreme SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
Vista Ultimate 32bit
2 x 400 gig Western Digital SATA2 drives (not raid)

Anyway, I needed to transfer a large amount of files (about 80 gigs) from an old IDE disk in an enclosure ...

After a while it started throwing up a "not enough memory to complete the operation" message. Rebooted a couple of times and finally got them moved. Even tried turning off aero and that didn't help either.

I thought that the problem was with the enclosure until I tried it again by transferring between the 2 SATA drives; again I got the same message a couple of times, but it completed after a reboot ... I actually wasn't doing much else.

I never ever had this problem on my old PC (1.5 gigs DDR1 RAM- XP SP2) or even on the PC before that (1.5 gigs SD RAM XP SP1).

Any idea why the RAM is being drained like this?

Thanks

 

[Chris Beard]

Did you every try to move that much data at once? What are your virtual memory settings like? I think this is a windows issue rather than hardware, which OS are you using?

Use robocopy for large files or lots of files (freely available as part of the 2003 server resource kit tools).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en

(if this won't install or you don't want to install it I'm sure you can find a copy of robocopy else where)

 

[Messy]

Did you every try to move that much data at once? What are your virtual memory settings like? I think this is a windows issue rather than hardware, which OS are you using?

All at once, vista ultimate 32bit. Some were large video files, most were pictures.

I've done similar file transfers under XP pro on my old and less powerful machince without a problem. I don't doubt it is an OS problem, but it reminds me of the old days of Windows 95 and 16 megs of RAM.