Error copying very large file to external usb hard drives

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You'll have to format your external drive using NTFS
as the file system. A FAT32 drive cannot handle the
transfer of files exceeding 4GBs.

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"TomB" wrote:

| I am running winxp pro and am trying to copy a 7gig file from the c:
| drive to an external usb2.0 hard drive. The drive works fine copying
| smaller files, but I get an error "Error Copying File or Folder..
| Cannot Copy There is not enough free disk space. The external drive
| has over 100 gigs free space when I check properties. I swapped with
| a larger external drive (200 gigs free) and got the same message. So
| I know both external drives work fine, but can't copy the file. I can
| copy it to another folder on the same internal drive.
|
| Any ideas what to do? I haven't run into this one before. Not sure
| of any limitations on file size transfer.
|
| Thanks
| tom

You stand a better chance of getting an answer if you start a new thread rather than digging-up an old one from 2004, also if you give people some information about the machine you are using.

From the (little) information you have given, the problem could be:
trying to store too many files/folders on the root of a FAT32 drive,
a drive corruption,
a faulty/cheap external drive...