File move to External Hard Drive

[Atom]

I would greatly appreciate some help. I have a 20GB file that I am trying to move to a 120GB External Hard drive that has 82.4GB free space. But, when I try to drag and drop in Windows Explorer(XP) or to copy and paste an error message comes up that says: "Cannot copy xxxxx. There is not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again." There should be enough free disk space. So, I don't understand. The file can be moved within the drive to other folders without any problem. Also, other files can be moved onto and off of the external hard drive so it does not seem to be a problem with that.

[rojash]

At a guess, your external drive is formatted to FAT32 and your internal to NTFS.

There is a maximum file size of 4GB under FAT32, so you will have to convert your external drive to NTFS if you wish to store larger files on it.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of file is that that can be 20GB in size?

[ACtheTROLL]

Agree .... and just as curious????

[Disco Fever]

Plenty of films, wink wink.....

[Atom]

Thanks all! That is exactly what the problem was. The huge file was two years worth of emails in Lotus Notes with attachments. Sadly, no films.

[ACtheTROLL]

Actually rojash

now I think about it ... I have a truecrypt drive that is 20Gb