Misleading error when copying large file to FAT32
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From: Ol�rin on 15 Sep 2009 04:25 Sachin wrote: > "Touch Base" wrote: >> >> Your flash drive/usb drive needs to be formatted using NTFS >> as the file system. A FAT32 drive cannot handle the >> transfer of files exceeding 4GBs. >> > > Thanks for the info. > I agree with what are you saying and ultimately did the same thing. > > But my concern is that, the error message shown by Windows is > misleading. It does not talk(or gives hint) about what you have > correctly explained. > So unless one has previous knowledge about this or does a search on > it, he's confused(thinking that, even though my device has enough > space why does windows complain?) > Hope I made it clear! Fair enough point. What is the purpose of your post - are you trying to get Microsoft to change the message? If so, this newsgroup isn't the route you need. Not that they'd make such a change for a system like Windows XP at this stage of its life, anyway.
From: Sachin on 15 Sep 2009 04:46 "Olórin" wrote: > Sachin wrote: > > "Touch Base" wrote: > >> > >> Your flash drive/usb drive needs to be formatted using NTFS > >> as the file system. A FAT32 drive cannot handle the > >> transfer of files exceeding 4GBs. > >> > > > > Thanks for the info. > > I agree with what are you saying and ultimately did the same thing. > > > > But my concern is that, the error message shown by Windows is > > misleading. It does not talk(or gives hint) about what you have > > correctly explained. > > So unless one has previous knowledge about this or does a search on > > it, he's confused(thinking that, even though my device has enough > > space why does windows complain?) > > Hope I made it clear! > > Fair enough point. What is the purpose of your post - are you trying to get > Microsoft to change the message? If so, this newsgroup isn't the route you > need. Not that they'd make such a change for a system like Windows XP at > this stage of its life, anyway. > > > Ok, I get it :) Hopefully Vista/Win7 is flashing some useful message(if at all they have worked on this :) ) Anyways, sorry for putting this in wrong place :-p
From: Leonard Grey on 15 Sep 2009 09:20 You missed the point. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Sachin wrote: > "Leonard Grey" wrote: > >> Which file system was created first? > > Actually the USB disk was purchased a year ago, and it was by default > formatted as FAT32, I didnt change it. > > The XP machine was also setup 8-9 months back. > I tried on a freshly installed machine also (filesystem was created fresh) > > As such, the USB disk was not always connected to my PC. > > I didnt get what you are trying to ask, but to answer your question: "The > FAT32 file system on my USB disk was created first." > > I tried copying from a pen drive(which was formatted to NTFS after I got > this error, and copied the file from PC's hard drive) to the USB disk(FAT32), > but same error. >
From: David B. on 15 Sep 2009 09:33 Not at all unusual for Windows. with your friend being a novice PC user he should learn to research issues he runs into. Rather than deleting files from the USB drive, it takes 3 seconds to check the amount of free space on it, he then would have determined that what the error was saying wasn't what the actual problem was. -- ------ "Sachin" <Sachin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2F4BC540-909C-4406-8643-CC627153E1CC(a)microsoft.com... > "Touch Base" wrote: >> >> Your flash drive/usb drive needs to be formatted using NTFS >> as the file system. A FAT32 drive cannot handle the >> transfer of files exceeding 4GBs. >> > > Thanks for the info. > I agree with what are you saying and ultimately did the same thing. > > But my concern is that, the error message shown by Windows is misleading. > It does not talk(or gives hint) about what you have correctly explained. > So unless one has previous knowledge about this or does a search on it, > he's > confused(thinking that, even though my device has enough space why does > windows complain?) > Hope I made it clear!
From: David B. on 15 Sep 2009 09:35
Oops, posted too soon, here is an example of a search he could have done. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3A*&q=xp+There+is+not+enough+disk+space+available+copying+file&aq=f&oq=&aqi= -- ------ "Sachin" <Sachin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2F4BC540-909C-4406-8643-CC627153E1CC(a)microsoft.com... > "Touch Base" wrote: >> >> Your flash drive/usb drive needs to be formatted using NTFS >> as the file system. A FAT32 drive cannot handle the >> transfer of files exceeding 4GBs. >> > > Thanks for the info. > I agree with what are you saying and ultimately did the same thing. > > But my concern is that, the error message shown by Windows is misleading. > It does not talk(or gives hint) about what you have correctly explained. > So unless one has previous knowledge about this or does a search on it, > he's > confused(thinking that, even though my device has enough space why does > windows complain?) > Hope I made it clear! |