Hi All,
I'm running a very stable system, Athlon 1.4GHz 1GB ram, Pinnacle Studio 7, 40GB Boot disk, 40GB Media disk, running Win 98SE.
However,
The 40GB Media disk is getting a bit limiting, so bend the visa, and a 160GB arrives, set it up as slave, FDISK, FORMAT, and put it on the secondary IDE channel so that I can copy the current work from the original 40Gb Media disk.
But,
File manager won't copy the files, so I'll use Ghost to make a copy,
Ghost works OK . But my 25GB of data (on the old drive) has become 5GB of data (on the new drive).........
Investigation have told me that the problem is with any file over 2GB? not copying correctly. Further investigations, and after looking at the Microsoft website, I've found that the big AVI files captured by Studio 7 are showing negative file sizes (which I now know is a known problem) and when trying Ghost again it did produce a warning related to a file with a negative file size.
So the largest files on my current drive are showing negative file sizes BUT everything works fine, however I can't copy them to the new drive and carry on working with all of the new space that I need.
What should I do ? I could just about finish the current work within the 40GB drive but it would be a shame to constanly watch the free space when I've got a big, fast, new drive around !
Thanks in anticiaption,
Richard.........
Hi
This FAQ may be of interest, it may not solve your problem though, fingers crossed.
Topic: Copying 2GB+ files in Windows 98 (FAT32)
http://www.dvdoctor.net/cgi-bin/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000056.html
Regards
[This message has been edited by johnpr98 (edited 06 April 2002).]
Thanks John,
The DOS work around might save me, although I imagine that I would have to rename the files into "8+3" and then rename them to their existing "long" filenames so that Pinnacle can find them correctly.
Although on the plus side I already have the directory structure and all of the files that are less than 2GB in place on the disk and could just delete the corrupted >2GB files, and then copy the >2GB files using DOS.
It's been a long time since I did anything at C:\ !
Thanks again,
Richard.........
[This message has been edited by RJHardy (edited 06 April 2002).]
Richard,
I've had a few file problems which I've worked around by loading them onto an editor time-line, then creating a movie as a completely fresh file which can be on another disc.
Well, it works for me and I hope it helps you!
Richard.