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External drive file transferHi there, I'm trying to move roughly 300GB of data from one external drive to another, both connected via usb to a pc running Vista with 2GB of ram. But, I keep getting "There is not enough memory to complete the operation" about halfway through and have to stop. Surely 2GB of memory is enough to handle transferring that amount without problem or am I missing something? Appreciate any help and thanks in advance. |
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External drive file transferTransfer to the PC first, then onto the other drive.
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External drive file transferThanks Dave. My internal drive is pretty much full at the moment but I could easily shift some stuff so I can do it that way. Why is it that you can't just transfer from one external to the other though? ![]() |
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External drive file transferJust a thought .... are both the external drives NTFS ? .... if the source drive is NTFS and the Destination drive is FAT32, any files larger than 4gb will throw up this message, due to filesize limit on FAT32 drives.
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External drive file transferBoth drives are NTFS which is why I thought it'd all transfer OK... In the end I just moved it all in smaller chunks of around 30GB. A pain in the butt but job done. |
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External drive file transferGlad you found a workaround ....... I vaguely remember reading somewhere that there was a memory leak bug in Vista, which also gave the "not enough memory" message, but I cant find the article at the moment ..... if I find it, I'll post back.
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External drive file transferYou're right, there does seem to be an error with Vista when copying large amounts in one go. Apparently it's also more likely to occur if your AV is Kaspersky which is what I use, so that explains it. I should probably have searched before I posted eh... There's a hotfix available upon request from ms though so i'll try that and see how it goes.. |
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External drive file transferGood stuff ..... if you locate iot and it works ok, let us know how it goes. I imagine it will get bundled into SP1, when it arrives.
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External drive file transferWill do. Still no reply from MS though so maybe I'll wait for SP1... |
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External drive file transferThat's the page I went to to request the link for the hotfix. Still no reply to my email... Last edited by edwinzo : 24-02-2008 at 01:10 AM. |
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External drive file transferI'm happy to report the hotfix worked perfectly. |
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External drive file transferGood stuff ...... out of interest, had you installed SP1 before the hotfix ?
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External drive file transferI hadn't. I installed it back in feb just after my last reply. I've been away actually and just checked my system and it appears i still don't have SP1? Strange since this pc is set to auto update and has been used regularly.. ![]() |
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