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by msfiroudis

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Hi,
I'm trying to backup a 17 gig file from a ntfs partition across the network to a fat32 hard drive w/32 gig of hard drive space all of which is free. When I try this I get a message that there is not enough disk space...Any help would be appreciated..Thank's in advance..

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by mjervis

I have run into this before and have been told by Microsoft that I couldn't because of the translation on the formats. NTFS is a 16 bit partition. The geometry of the 2 different formats is whats stopping you.

by maz1980

Maybe your NTFS partition has compression option enabled, so your data actually greater than 17 gigs. When you tranferred it to fat32 partition over network, it would be decompressed first and maybe the actual size is more than 32 gigabytes.

Cluster size is other thing that may cause your problem. FAT32 has bigger cluster size dan NTFS which make FAT32 less efficient in space usage.

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