I'm trying to move a 4gb video to my external HDD, and it tells me "Cannot copy *filename*. There is not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space and try again. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click disk cleanup. " I'm using a comstar Platinum USB 2.0 Hard Drive (320gb) Any ideas why this is happening?
Your hard drive is most likely formated in FAT 32 which will not allow the storage of big files, i don't know the exact limit, but it's less than 4GB. If you can switch all your files to a secondary hard drive and format the external drive in NTSF then that will solve your problem. To figure out which how your drive is formated right click on the external drive an click properties under "type" there should be "file system". If its says FAT 32 then you will not be able to put that file in that drive. Another thing you can probably do is create a new partition in that 118Gb of empty space fromated in NTSF. That could also solve your problem. However i think you will need to install a program, don't know which, in oder to do this because you cannot create new partitions from an already formated drive in windows without deleting the whole drive. If you care to try (while your external drive is on of course) go to control panel-->performance and maintenance-->administrative tools-->computer management-->storage-->disk management. as i said i don't think you can create a new partition out of an already formated hard drive using windows whithout deleting the whole drive. I will let somebody else help you from now on.
Correct, files in excess of 4GB can't be managed moved or edited on an FAT32 volume, it needs to be NTFS.
