Windows disk space reporting wrong?

[leaskovski]

Right, ive been racking my brains over this one!

I have 2 disks, one 250GB and the other is 80GB. I am trying to move a 4gb file to the second disk from the original one but when ever i try to copy, windows always throws an error saying there isn't enough space.

Well son! There is. 65GB to be correct. Its a FAT32 disk where i keep all my, er, erm, rubbish

Why the hell is window not letting me move this file???

 

[bledd]

the fat 32 limit is around 4gb..

fat32 is rubbish, unless you need to use that drive on a mac/linux/windows9x box, then i'd format it as ntfs

 

[mctiny]

or convert to NTFS without data loss

 

[leaskovski]

Ah, that be why then. Doh! The only reason i had that drive was to store stuff for when doing reinstalls of xp.

 

[bootup05]

Yep, FAT32 is deffo your prob, had the same prob few weeks ago with a FAT32 ext drive, was trying to copy over a 4.5GB ISO with 120GB space free, wouldn't work, converted over, all better now

 

[The_KiD]

Start > Run > cmd > convert

Will convert your disk from FAT32 to NTFS.

 

[ns400r]

Start > Run > cmd > convert

Will convert your disk from FAT32 to NTFS.

No it won't. You must specify parameters to the command.
i.e. "convert d: /fs:ntfs"

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] [/CvtArea:filename] [/NoSecurity] [/X]

volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.

/FS:NTFS - Specifies that the volume is to be converted to NTFS.

/V - Specifies that Convert should be run in verbose mode.

/CvtArea:filename - Specifies a contiguous file in the root directory to be the place holder for NTFS system files.

/NoSecurity Specifies the converted files and directories security settings to be accessible by everyone.

/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary.

All opened handles to the volume would then be invalid.