Copy large file from internal HDD to external HD

[YellowLabProject]

Guys,
Got what seems like a simple issue. I have an external drive w/ 63.5 Gb of space. I have an internal drive that has a 9 Gb file. I want to copy over the file stored on the internal drive to the external drive.

I keep getting the message that there is not enough room to copy over the file. This has me stumped. I have defragged the external drive. I can copy smaller files, but not this one.
Any ideas as to what is going on?

Thanks,

Doug

 

[wahnula]

Is the target drive NTFS or FAT32? Fat32 has a 4GB limit. Have you tried zipping the files, then unzipping them on the target drive? I would try a file-copy tool like SyncBackSE (free trial) to synch the files over to the target drive if all else failed.

Tony

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[shoalcreek]

The problem is definitely FAT32.

 

[YellowLabProject]

Hmmmmm, okay thanks guys. Had me baffeled.
Zipping won't work, tried it. It only compressed it down about .05 percent. This is a norton ghost file.

I will look up syncbackse.

thanks,

doug

 

[wolluf]

Is there any reason for the external drive not to be ntfs (like you access it from a 9x/me machine)? If not, then why not just convert it to ntfs - using 2k/XP/Vista's built in utility (convert x: /FS:NTFS from a command prompt where x: is drive letter)

 

[YellowLabProject]

wolluf-
I do not believe there is any reason it is fat 32 other than that is probably the way it came formatted when purchased.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will think about converting it. I am assuming there is no problem w/ the existing data on this drive while converting to NTFS, is that a safe assumption?

Thanks,

Doug

 

[wahnula]

You can look at the external drive in Disk Management (right-click My Computer==>Manage==>Disk Management) and this will tell you if it's FAT or NTFS. You can safely convert from FAT to NTFS, just do a full backup first.

Tony

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