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Your USB drive &nbsp;is probably formatted with the FAT system which has a limit of 4Gb for a single file.<br />
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Reformat it as NTFS and try again
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Your USB drive  is probably formatted with the FAT system which has a limit of 4Gb for a single file.

Reformat it as NTFS and try again

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You can create a winrar or 7zip archive, split into 2Gb files.
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You can create a winrar or 7zip archive, split into 2Gb files.

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I have a VM on my windows XP machine.<br />
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I'm trying to back it up(via windows copy/paste) the VM to my USB external hard drive.<br />
The external hard drive has 90GB free of space and I recently defraged it.<br />
The size of the VM is 50GB.<br />
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I get the error message....<br />
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Error copying File or Folder<br />
Cannot copy MYVM. There is not enough free disk space.<br />
Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again.<br />
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I know there is space, so what is the problem?<br />
Is this is a windows issue with copying giant files?
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I have a VM on my windows XP machine.

I'm trying to back it up(via windows copy/paste) the VM to my USB external hard drive.
The external hard drive has 90GB free of space and I recently defraged it.
The size of the VM is 50GB.

I get the error message....

Error copying File or Folder
Cannot copy MYVM. There is not enough free disk space.
Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again.

I know there is space, so what is the problem?
Is this is a windows issue with copying giant files?

Having problems copying my VM image to external hard drive.

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Windows XP

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