{"id":7010,"date":"2021-11-22T09:09:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7010"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:11:44","slug":"errors-converting-fat32-to-ntfs-on-external-h","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-xp\/errors-converting-fat32-to-ntfs-on-external-h\/183183.html","title":{"rendered":"Errors Converting FAT32 TO NTFS On External H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to copy some large files from my pc to an external hard drive. The drive was formatted FAT32 so it wont let me copy files over 4 gb. So I tried to convert to NTFS but I keep getting this error: (long)<br \/>\nWindows has checked the file system and found no problems.<br \/>\n976,521,568 KB total disk space.<br \/>\n122,880 KB in 623 hidden files.<br \/>\n52,128 KB in 1,599 folders.<br \/>\n439,448,928 KB in 34,533 files.<br \/>\n536,897,600 KB are available.<\/p>\n<p>32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.<br \/>\n30,516,299 total allocation units on disk.<br \/>\n16,778,050 allocation units available on disk.<\/p>\n<p>Determining disk space required for file system conversion&#8230;<br \/>\nTotal disk space: 976759996 KB<br \/>\nFree space on volume: 536897600 KB<br \/>\nSpace required for conversion 1118240 KB<br \/>\nConverting file system<br \/>\nInsufficient Memory<br \/>\nError converting file BACKUP1.TIB.<br \/>\nThe file may be damaged or there may be insufficient disk space.<br \/>\nError converting directory MYCOMP~1.<br \/>\nThe directory may be damaged or there may be insufficient disk space.<br \/>\nThe conversion failed.<br \/>\nR: was not converted to NTFS<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve run Check Disk and it did not find any errors and I&#8217;ve tried doing this on three different pcs with the same results.<\/p>\n<p>Is there not enough space on the disk to do the conversion? If so &#8211; how much space do I need to free up? What does it mean insufficient memory?<\/p>\n<p>Please advise what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[76],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7010","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-xp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}