not enough free disk space, but 123gb free

Im trying to move a 4.22GB file to my external hard dive, and keep getting
the error
"can't copy file. There is not enough free disk space."When i check how much
free space i have left on my external drive it says 123GB free. How can I
move the file?
Im running XP and the external drive is an acomadata 250gb drive.

It's probably FAT32. Use NTFS unless other OSs need to write it.

"mysecretsrmine" <u38663@uwe> wrote in message news:7a6d4f900dfb2@uwe...
> Im trying to move a 4.22GB file to my external hard dive, and keep getting
> the error
> "can't copy file. There is not enough free disk space."When i check how much
> free space i have left on my external drive it says 123GB free. How can I
> move the file?
> Im running XP and the external drive is an acomadata 250gb drive.
>

mysecretsrmine <u38663@uwe> wrote:
> Im trying to move a 4.22GB file to my external hard dive, and keep
> getting the error
> "can't copy file. There is not enough free disk space."When i check
> how much free space i have left on my external drive it says 123GB
> free. How can I move the file?
> Im running XP and the external drive is an acomadata 250gb drive.

There's a variety of things that can produce that result.

One is that you have too many entrys in the root directory
where there is a limit to the total number allowed.

Try moving some of the files in the root to a folder in the root
and see if that allows that file to be copied to the drive.

On Oct 29, 9:14 pm, "Eric Gisin" <gi...@uniserve.com> wrote:
> It's probably FAT32. Use NTFS unless other OSs need to write it.
>
>
>
> "mysecretsrmine" <u38663@uwe> wrote in messagenews:7a6d4f900dfb2@uwe...
> > Im trying to move a 4.22GB file to my external hard dive, and keep getting
> > the error
> > "can't copy file. There is not enough free disk space."When i check how much
> > free space i have left on my external drive it says 123GB free. How can I
> > move the file?
> > Im running XP and the external drive is an acomadata 250gb drive.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I agree with Eric. Most external drives come preformatted as FAT32
and FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit

Michael
www.cnwrecovery.com