Error Copying File or Folder - There is Not Enough Disk Space
Penguin February 10th, 2008
I have a Western Digital 250 GB external HDD. I was trying to copy some large video files over to the drive to back them up and it kept telling me “Error copying file or folder - there is not enough disk space”. But I clearly had enough space for it. I even tried copying other files and found that the culprit was an 11 GB HD file.
The problem is the drive is formatted as FAT32 which has a file size limit of 4 GB. To check this, right click on the drive -> properties. Under “File system” it’ll say “FAT32″.
The only way to correct this is to convert the drive to NTFS. You can either reformat the drive or try running “convert.exe”. If you choose to go this route, make sure you backup all your data first.
To convert FAT32 to NTFS:
- Open the command prompt: Start -> run; type “cmd”
- In the command prompt, type “convert
/fs:ntfs”, where is the letter of the drive. In my case, it’s “O:”
And you’re done! Just a quick note. You can’t convert NTFS to FAT32. To go back would require a reformat of the drive.
-Penguin
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