Not enough disk space? But i have 20gb free!

polarsnake SG

Hi, i have an annoying problem that i would like you guys to help diagnose for me.

I have a file that is 4.5GB large, however, when i try to copy it into my thumbdrive with a free space of 20GB, a message pops up saying that I do not have enough disk space, and asks me to clear some data. What's wrong?

Shao Wei SG

defrag your harddisc.

lifelikedrama SG

maybe there’s a disk volume error? right click on the drive and click properties. on one of the tabs, there’s a button to check for disk volume error. u can try that. if not, then I recommend u to transfer ur stuff to another place, then reformat the harddisk. I’m not sure if defrag might help. at least this is what I’ll do… not sure if it helps…

Keii SG

Might be a problem with your thumbdrive's file system. NTFS and FAT32, can never remember the differences.

Then again, are you transferring that 4.5gb file from a Mac into an NTFS-format thumbdrive?

polarsnake SG

oh i know le, FAT format cannot transfer more than 4GB of data. Must switch to NTFS.

Keii SG

oh i know le, FAT format cannot transfer more than 4GB of data. Must switch to NTFS.

There you go.

GIB SG

Were u by any chance copying that file to the root folder of the thumb drive?

If ya, try create a sub-folder and copy the file into this sub-folder.

If no, then can ignore this post.