Drive running out of space when not full

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shortridge11

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I have a 750 or 700 gig external drive and i have been trying to fill it up. I move folders of about 4-9 gigs a piece to it, and after about 2-3 of these folders it stops and throws an error saying it ran out of space. Now at the most, the folders have taken up 20 gigs out of 700g. This is a reoccurring incident. The only fix i can find is to throw the files inside a folder on the hd. Instead of putting all the folders on the root of the drive, i make a folder foo, and put everything in foo. I am trying to copy all of them at once, about 100 gigs of info. Any ideas why i'm getting this error?
 
I'm a little hazy on actual #'s but back in the DOS days I believe there was a limit on how many files/folders(upper main ones) could be listed in root, was fairly low like 128-256 I believe. I personally am not sure if we still have that legacy limit on HD root dirs on these huge new HDs with XP and/or Vista still, but maybe?

regards,
manic49er
 
nah. I found out that there are about 3-4 folders that throw this error. All the others are fine, but when i try to copy these ones over i get the "too full" error. Can a corrupted file do this?
 
I'm sure they could if it the size allocation part for the folder was corrupted (part of the FAT or whatever does same function on NTFS HD's).

regards,
manic49er
 
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