Large (160GB) HD Problem

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Matthias M?he - 06 Apr 2004 09:37 GMT

Hello NG,

I've upgraded an Athlon 900 (3 Years old) under Win98SE with a 160 HD
(Samsung SP 1604); RAM 384 MB. The boot disk is a 40 GB. Both HD's are
connected to a Promise ULTRA controller.
Detection , fdisk, and format have worked fine. The drive is visible as 160
GB in Explorer.
Now the problem: copying of approx. 7 GB from the boot disk to the new one
has "frozen" the PC at some stage. If I try Explorer, Properties, Extras,
Error Checking, the system reports "Insufficient memory for the execution of
scandisk; close some applications to ...."

Any Idea???

TIA

Matthias

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philo - 06 Apr 2004 10:14 GMT

> Hello NG,
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> Any Idea???

fat32 can handle a maximum file size of 4gigs

if you work with such large files you should consider and operating system
such as win2k or XP which can use NTFS...
NTFS has no such limitations as to file size

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Matthias M?he - 06 Apr 2004 11:51 GMT

Clarification: I was not copying one file with 7GB but a tree containing 7GB
in total

Matthias

> fat32 can handle a maximum file size of 4gigs

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