External Hard Drive Not Enough Space Error
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open for further replies. Giambattista sssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss Valued Senior Member Messages: 4,878 I have a small, "pocket drive" (Western digital) that actually fits in ones pocket. It comes with approximately 250 G all together, but with formatting it's more like 230gb. the item can't be copied because there isn't enough free space Well, it the disk properties tell me it has 180 occupied, and 51.8 gb in free unable to backup files to my passport ultra because there is not enough space space remaining. I just tried to copy over a file that was about 8 gigabytes. It told me that there was not enough room! It wd backup not enough space accepted a much smaller file fine, but 7.67 gb's is just tooooo much for a hard drive with 50gb FREE to accept! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I have never encountered this before where a hard
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drive has so much free space and yet tells me it can't give up about 15% of that! Anyone have ANY suggestions, other than run some type of disk diagnostic on it? Is it an Enron hard drive who reports more free disk space than it actually has? Oh, wait! The file in question was a disk image. The RAR segments that made it up are actually transferring, whereas the disk image itself would apparently not, though the space is the same there is not enough space on wd unlocker size. I just had this idea to transfer the Rar's instead, and it worked. Okay? That's also a little puzzling... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! What gives? Giambattista, Apr 5, 2010 #1 Google AdSense Guest Advertisement Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member Messages: 7,721 Sometimes the manufacturer formats them fat16 or some godawful bullshit like that, with these lil thumb drives. it might be having trouble handling really "large" files. nietzschefan, Apr 5, 2010 #2 Google AdSense Guest Advertisement Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts. Dr Mabuse Percipient Thaumaturgist Registered Senior Member Messages: 714 The drive is formatted to Fat32 most likely. This is popular in those drives so they will work with more devices. Any file larger than 4 gigs is not able to be handled by FAT32. You can format the drive to NTFS, but you will need to be super careful with it as NTFS will utilize read ahead caching so you will have to use 'safely remove' assuming this is a USB drive. You can go into properties and disable caching on the USB drive. Google will find you step by step instructions on how to do that. Be aware that before you format, you need to back up everything on the drive as it all will be lost. Dr Mabuse, Apr 5, 2010 #3 Google AdSense Guest A
Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Error copying files to External Drive> Error copying files to External Drive Tags: Hard Drives External Drive Disk Space Storage Last response: 19 March flash drive says not enough space but there is 2015 08:06 in Storage Share jmcbride1983 7 May 2009 08:01:32 Ok I have got
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some pretty good help from everyone on here so far so lets see if anyone can figure this one out. I
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have a WD Passport 320GB External Drive and it shows 298GB Available. Ok fine. Now it says I still have 185GB used and 112GB free. But here is the problem, I can not copy http://www.sciforums.com/threads/hard-drive-says-not-enough-space-but-still-has-50-gb.100767/ any more files to it because it has an error that says "Cannot copy *****.*** There is not enough disk space. Delete one or more file to free disk space, and then try again. To free up space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click Disk Cleanup." I can not figure out how I am out of disk space. I should have pleant enough to copy whatever http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/249724-32-error-copying-files-external-drive I want to. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. More about : error copying files external drive RomDA_73 7 May 2009 19:14:32 IIRC, WD Passports have software that allow the owner to "write-protect" the drive. Maybe that's what happened? Can you also try the drive on another computer? You can also check if there's really space left by going to Windows Disk Management (Windows+R, type "diskmgmt.msc", Press Enter). Last resort is to see if you can back-up the drive, format it, and try again. jmcbride1983 7 May 2009 22:30:59 Well as for the write-protect, I have never set that and I use this drive on a daily basis. I back up all my movies, games, music, etc. I just never had it this full. Disk Management shows that there is 298.02GB Total and 112.71GB Free(37%). I am stumped. This makes no sense to me. I am going to contact WD today and see what they say. If you think of anything else, I will be open for any advice. Thanks. Related resources Errors copying files between external drives - Forum Fatal Error on WD External HDD After Copying Some Files - Forum Copying files from a Hard Drive to an external SSD - Forum Comp Freezing when Copyin
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USBCrypt Purchase StartFinity Upgrade… Purchase Orders… More… DOWNLOAD Download Folder Guard Download USBCrypt Download AB Commander Download StartFinity More… HELP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Privacy policy Folder Guard User's Guide USBCrypt User's Guide AB Commander User's Guide Contact us… Search for: Why can't I copy large files over 4GB to my USB flash drive? Take control of your files and folders with AB Commander file manager for Windows 10,8,7,Vista, and XP. User rating: 4.7/5 Purchase or download a free trial. Read more… The capacity of your external flash drive is large: 8GB, 16GB, or more. There is enough free space on the drive. You can copy the smaller files to the external drive just fine. Yet, when you attempt to copy a large file (4GB or larger) to the external drive, Windows gives you an error (such as: There is not enough free space on the drive, or similar.) Does this sound familiar? If you experience such a problem, most probably it's caused by the fact that your flash drive is formatted with the FAT32 file system. This type of a file system has a built-in limitation on the size of the files that it may contain. Although the total size of the files that you can copy to a FAT32 drive could be as large as 2TB (or the physical capacity of the drive, whichever is smaller), the size of each individual file may not exceed 4GB. This limitation may sound silly: why would anyone design a system that would not allow for the larger files? The problem is, when the FAT32 file system was designed (that was back in the days of Windows 95), no one anticipated that we would have such large files in use today. Or, maybe the designers hoped that by the time such large files become common, the use of the FAT32 system would be replaced by the more modern systems. In any case, how to solve the problem of copying the 4GB files? Easy: you need to replace the FAT32 file system on the drive with the NTFS file system. The latter does not have the 4GB file size limitation, and it also allows for many other functions not supported by FAT32: file security, encryption, compression, etc. One caveat, however: the older versions of Windows (such as Windows 95, 98, or Windows Millennium, remember those?) do not support the NTFS file system. If you plan on using the drive with such old computers, then DO NOT format the drive with NTFS, because you won't be able to get the old Windows to recognize it anyway. If, however, you only plan on using the drive with the more recent versions of Windows, such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and of course Windows 7, such