Hello -

I'm tryng to move a 4g file onto a drive on my system that has about 15g available. I get a disk full error, and it tries to get me to use disk space to free up some space. I know there is enough space but I can't figure out this error.

If I try a little file (<100k) it works fine. I'm in XP Pro. Very mysterious!

Any ideas appreciated!!!

thanks, Dave

How do you know how much free space you have? Is it just that you "assume" you have all that free space or does it show that you have 15 Gb free?

As for that first response to your post - I apologize on behalf of that new member. That's not how we treat problems here.

swilkinson- I've tried the diskspace utility a few times, so now it shows that it can free up 0 bytes of space.

Allan- I get these numbers from 3 places, from the properties of the drive (i.e. right click on e: from explorer and see pie chart), by selecting all contents and viewing properties, and from the disk manager.. So, I'm fairly confident in how much data is there. Also, I know what's in there and it seems reasonable.

Very wierd

I'm so sorry with everybody for the fool aswer below this,

Excuse me dhecker, allan, and the others, but i'm only trying to be funny.

I'll try to help with your problem dhecker!

Bye, Sorry again. 

How's your drive formatted, FAT32 or NTFS?  Could be a corrupt allocation?  I'm relatively new to NTFS, so I don't kow if there is a backup copy of the allocation table (or NTFS's equivalent of same).  There is a FAT copy in FAT32 so if formatted that way, you could load that FAT and see what happens.  Been so long since I've had to do that though, I can't remember how.  Also, not sure how often the copy is made.

Other thought is that perhaps the files you have on the disk are really taking up that much room.  Remember that with a 15 gB drive, you'll only get maybe 14 gB of actual space once the drive is formatted (someone else may be more accurate).  Can't remember how much space XP takes up.  Is there stuff you can move to a backup drive or to an external HD and see how much space frees up in the various sources you are using to look at space.