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Answer» Have an external hard drive with 538 gigs free. Am trying to cut and paste .avi files onto external hd. error report keeps saying the destination drive is full and recommends a clean up. have cleaned up, and have more free space, but same error report comes up when trying to cut and paste. Have done complete scan, (Kaspersky) on both units and am virus free. HELP!Welcome to CH. VOLUNTEERS here are ready to help. Hi Did you run it with the /F switch? You may have file system errors, especially if the free space is being misreported. Actually, I'd prefer you run chkdsk with the /r switch. It will check for file system errors AND bad sectors and try to repair both. Quote from: Allan on July 27, 2012, 04:27:08 PM I'd prefer you run chkdsk with the /r switch Good catch there, Allan. Regardless he is trying to copy a movie that i would guess is way over the FAT32 limit... Is there any reason your external is FAT32 ? ?FAT32 is the issue. But an alternative is to reduce the file size of the AVI files. Also he could split an AVI into two or more parts. Format factory can don both. OK. I ran chkdsk with the r switch. same result, My mistake. The files are mkv, not avi. Strangely, I just got my copy of pc format mag, and loaded format factory onto my computer today. Any chance that it will split the movie into smaller parts? Will give it a shot now. So am i correct in saying that big files are not compatible with FAT32 format. I have a 32 gig flash, and tried to change the format but it was no go. Thanks for the input and will LET you know what happens with format factory. Quote from: patio on July 27, 2012, 05:09:24 PM ....Why? Curious minds need to know. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881 Quote from: Tookie on July 27, 2012, 06:07:41 PM So am i correct in saying that big files are not compatible with FAT32 format. FAT32 max file size is 4,294,967,295 bytes (this is 1 byte less than 4 gigabytes). Any operation trying to put a bigger file on a FAT filesystem will trigger an error and the operation will fail. Firstly, thanks again for all the input.I will wait til Monday to go harass my local supplier about getting another HDD that is not FAT32. Looked at format factory but it seems I will need a little patience to figure out how to use it. To answer Geeks-9pm's question, I have not come across any other format but the FAT32 for at least the last 5 years. Honestly thought it was the only format now available. Will interogate my supplier about this, and refer him to this site if he gives me any BS!! Thanks again guys. Quote from: Tookie on July 28, 2012, 04:02:08 AM I have not come across any other format but the FAT32 for at least the last 5 years. Honestly thought it was the only format now available. Will interogate my supplier about this, and refer him to this site if he gives me any BS!!Thanks again guys. FAT32 is only one type of file system possible on a hard drive. It is a rather old format these days, and has a number of limitations, including the file size issue. There are plenty of other file systems that can be used on a hard drive. NTFS is probably the alternative best known to Windows users, since all versions of Windows from Windows 2000 onwards support it natively and since then it has been the preferred file system for Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. The problem for makers of hard drives is that NTFS is a proprietary Microsoft product and a disk maker WANTING to sell a drive ready-formatted would have to get a license from Microsoft and pay a royalty on each disk sold. This would make an ntfs disk more expensive than a FAT32 one so it tends not to be done on mass market external HDDs. You can buy disks ready formatted in NTFS but you have to ask for them. Anyhow, you don't have to buy another drive, you can just delete the FAT partition from the disk you have now, create a new one, and format it as NTFS. You would of course first move any data on it that you want to keep to another drive. |
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