Strange issue with Freecom USB drive.

[stduc]

I copied some large files > 3 GB from an XP Pro PC onto a brand new Freecom USB 160GB drive to take them to another XP Pro PC at another location. I copied them off and worked on them just fine but when I tried to copy the updated and renamed files back the Freecom drive XP told me the drive was full.

My computer reported it was 93% free
Local disk management said it was fine.

I didn't have time to mess around, so as I had all the files on my HDD I re-formatted the USB Freecom to NTFS and was able to copy all the files back. It had been formatted as FAT32.

So no problem - as such. My question is this.

What am I looking for on the PC that wouldn't copy the 3GB-ish files to the drive when formatted as FAT32 so that I can see if I can fix it. It is likely I will need to do this operation again and I would rather leave the drives as FAT32 so that older PCs can use them.

I could create a new notepad file on the drive so it was a question of XP not seeing 160GB and 93% free - when trying to create a big file - rather than write permissions.

Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Rick998]

At a guess you have run into the FAT32 limitation on file size - the maximum is 4Gb.

I use an 80Gb Freecom FHD-2 Pro and have it partitioned into 2. Most of my work is with XP. As a result the main partition is small and formatted with FAT32 and the much larger secondary partition is NTFS. I find this gives me the best of both worlds.

Hope this helps...

 

[stduc]

That's what I thought at first - but the 1st PC wrote over 9GB to the disk as FAT32! I suspect a BIOS issue myself, perhaps someone could confirm/add light?

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