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RAID + Windows Woes - Not Enough Space?
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Warhaven
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Feb 14, 2008, 04:24 PM
 
Hi All,

A friend of mine is running WinXP Pro. He has an external 1TB RAID with purportedly has 350+ GB of space left. When he attempts to copy a 4.5 GB DVD image from his primary HD to the RAID, it says it doesn't have enough space.

Any ideas? How should he go about troubleshooting this?
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 04:27 PM
 
He has noted that he can't copy large files to the RAID. For example, he could copy over 10 CDs worth of data, but not a single DVD image of 4.5 GBs.
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 04:43 PM
 
Figured out the problem. Noticed his RAID was FAT32 formatted. Maximum allocation size for a single file under FAT32 is 4GB.

Thanks to anyone who was or is in the process of finding some suggestions for me.
     
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Feb 14, 2008, 08:47 PM
 
Just got to this one. Yep, FAT32 won't/can't handle files over about 4GB.
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