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Solve : Not enough disc space on external HD?????? |
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Answer» I have a program on my desktop that I want to put on to my laptop. The program is roughly 7 GIGS and my external hard drive (Western Digital) is 70 ish gigs. For some reason the computer says there is not enough disc space when I try to put the program onto the external hard drive. I have done this before with other programs, I dont know why this wont work. Any ideas or help would be great. I have a program on my desktop that I want to put on to my laptop. The program is roughly 7 gigs and my external hard drive (Western Digital) is 70 ish gigs. For some reason the computer says there is not enough disc space when I try to put the program onto the external hard drive. I have done this before with other programs, I dont know why this wont work. Any ideas or help would be great. Have you got 7GB spare on the external HDD? Have you tried removing some stuff from it, and re-trying?It does sound strange that you can't move the files. How much free space do you have on the external disk? But besides that you really shouldn't do what you're doing. You should always install software from the installation media you received with the software. The reason is, during the installation the setup often sets values in the Windows registry. These settings are not going to be COPIED over when you COPY the software to another computer. Some software will work regardless (by recreating the registry values at start up) but a lot of software will not function correct when these values are not present.My external has over 70 gigs free. I dont get it I think you should check the external drive for file system errors. Go to start --> Run... type cmd and hit enter. Type chkdsk [Drive letter:] /F in the command prompt window and hit enter. So if your external drive is assigned to E: you would type chkdsk e: /F. Also, how is your external drive formatted? NTFS or FAT32? If you don't know make a note of the FIRST line the chkdsk utility outputs. It starts with: "The type of the file system is". Finally is one of the files you're trying to move larger than 4 GB? |
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