Error when attempting to move large files

carlbme

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I have a WD external drive (160GB) that I use for backups. I have a 12GB file that I wanted to relocate from the local HD on my computer to the external. The external still have 137GB free, yet when I attempt to move the file from the local drive to the external drive I get an error from WindowsXP stating "Not enough space available on HD".

Any clue as to why, or how to fix this?

Is it due to the removable being a FAT32(due to also using it on my Linux box) and XP being NTFS? If so is there a way around that?
 
I'm no connisuer of Linux, but if it were me. I'd make 2 partitions
1 - Linux - Fat32
2 - Windows - NTFS

I beleive its a file system issue with fat32
 
FAT32 cannot handle single files over 4GBs. If you need to transfer it, use a program link WinRAR to split the 12GB files into sub 4GB files and transfer them that way and reassemble them later on the other PC with WinRAR (WinRAR has Windows and linux versions availible so compatibility isnt an issue.)
 
fat32 has a 4GB file limit

fat16 has a 2 or 4GB limit depending on the OS.
 
You could also just keep the backup drive attached to just one of the computers, and do backups from the other over the network. Then could have the whole drive in Ext3 or NTFS.
 
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