hard drive problem

[mybluehair]

i have tried this a few times and dont know what to do. im downloading a 8 gigabyte file from online onto a torrent client (not illegal stuff). when it starts downloading it on to my harddrive the client says your hard drive will not let this be done because of the size of the file. so basicly its saying my harddrive says no because this is to big. how to i change the permission?

[chicgeek]

Well, it seems you hard drive is running out of space.

It's not a matter of permission, it's a matter of capacity. Easy solution: buy an external harddrive. They're good to have around.

[andrewp]

As long as there is enough space on the Hard Drive it should download. More storage space required

[littleFella]

2 reasons I can think of:

- you're short on disk space
- you're running win9x, or XP with FAT32 (4GB file limit) instead of NTFS. In the first case, you need to upgrade your Windows, in the latter you need to convert to NTFS.

[Batch]

I think more storage space required.

[joe-d]

Yeah. Just increase the storage capacity in your PC.

[mybluehair]

no, i have about 100 GB left on my harddrive

[chicgeek]

Is it partitioned?

[photocrats.com]

Originally Posted by littleFella

- you're running win9x, or XP with FAT32 (4GB file limit) instead of NTFS. In the first case, you need to upgrade your Windows, in the latter you need to convert to NTFS.

I agree with this

[gderoo]

Originally Posted by littleFella

2 reasons I can think of:

- you're short on disk space
- you're running win9x, or XP with FAT32 (4GB file limit) instead of NTFS. In the first case, you need to upgrade your Windows, in the latter you need to convert to NTFS.

Damn I recently bought a 400GB external harddrive. And I formatted it to fat.
Totaly forgot about this. Recently I wanted to copy a 9GB file onto the drive and I had the same problem.
Thanks. I overlooked this. I also thought it was a problem with the drive.

[mybluehair]

Originally Posted by littleFella

2 reasons I can think of:

- you're short on disk space
- you're running win9x, or XP with FAT32 (4GB file limit) instead of NTFS. In the first case, you need to upgrade your Windows, in the latter you need to convert to NTFS.

how do i do that

[rush]

yea even i gotta say that there s a problem with the space in your drive,but before going for a new one just try to defragment the drives in your PC so that the possible remeining space in the site will be available ata a place which the main perspective of defragmentation

[littleFella]

Originally Posted by mybluehair

how do i do that

from command line:

CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS

where C is your drive letter.

you will be asked a couple more questions, answer Y to all.
If this is a system drive you willl be asked to reboot, and the conversion should start before you boot back in win.

[mybluehair]

Originally Posted by littleFella

from command line:

CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS

where C is your drive letter.

you will be asked a couple more questions, answer Y to all.
If this is a system drive you willl be asked to reboot, and the conversion should start before you boot back in win.

IT ASKES ME FOR A VOLUME LABEL. WHAT DO I PUT?

[chicgeek]

Whoa caps. Down boy.

[andrewp]

Originally Posted by mybluehair

IT ASKES ME FOR A VOLUME LABEL. WHAT DO I PUT?

Its up to you what you want to put for the volume label. Its basically just giving your hard drive a name and is usually useful if you have more than one hard drive so you can distinguish between them

[mybluehair]

Originally Posted by andrewp

Its up to you what you want to put for the volume label. Its basically just giving your hard drive a name and is usually useful if you have more than one hard drive so you can distinguish between them

but when i enter anything it sayes "a incorrent volume lable was entered for this drive"

[littleFella]

in command line type:

vol and hit ENTER

You will get output similar to this:

C:\>vol
Volume in drive C is Local Disk
Volume Serial Number is 682B-A31F

In the above example Local Disk is the volume label. Use it with previous instructions.