[v1ks_]

So today a collegue of mine called up complaining that he's having problems with transfering the files from his hdd to an external one.
Being a lazy ******* that I am, I fire up TeamViewer to give it a look. Files in question turn out to be four video files, about 9 - 13Gb each, edited in Pinnacle. The error message he's getting is that:

Cannot copy [file]. There is not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files.

Right, so I check the external HDD, plenty of space, just 20% taken from 1Tb. Here is where I think I've found the culprit. The external hdd is FAT32, which doesn't like big files.

So I get him to try another drive, a 320Gb one, formatted to NTFS (internal hdd is NTFS too btw). Same problem. My second guess that the internal hdd wants to buffer something but runs out of space. However the internal hdd has plenty of free space as well. Furthermore, it copies another directory (~40Gb, many smaller files though) without a problem.

Any guesses/suggestions/ideas where the problem might be? Everything -seems- to be fine. CHKDISK comes up with no errors, files in question are not in use by another app... I even tried move them with Norton Commander and still nothing.

Thanks guys!

[shant]

try safe mod, maybe some driver issue or some virus or something?
try defragmenting hdd, try connecting his main hdd to another pc then trying from there?
trying those would probably reveal the problem..

[RJARRRPCGP]

Originally Posted by v1ks_

Cannot copy [file]. There is not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files.

Like it's a freaking floppy!

[shant]

Originally Posted by RJARRRPCGP

Like it's a freaking floppy!

floppy's still exist?