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Insufficient disk space when moving data

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iluvsushi79

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May 5, 2006
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Hi, would anyone know why I'm getting an error message of
"Insufficient disk space" when I'm trying to copy and paste from Windows XP workstation to Windows 2000 server? The data is coming from a USB hard drive on the workstation (140 gigs) and I'm trying to copy it and paste it to a folder over the network to the Windows 2000 server. There's no disk quota, permissions and rights seems ok, there's no Distributed File system set. I'm out of ideas. Can anyone help? Thanks!
 
Don't use copy/paste for this operation. It's quite possible that Windows encountered a path/filename that is greater than 255 chars in length (thus the error). In order to copy the files, I would recommend using robocopy (from the Windows 2000/2003 resource kit) from a command prompt in order to complete the copy. Hope this helps.
 
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