Discussion "There is not enough space on windows. you need an additional... to copy these files"

[Eamonn100]

I keep getting this error... "There is not enough space on windows. you need an additional... to copy these files" when I try and copy/drag these file from my external hard drive to my desktop or documents folder. There's more than enough space on my PC?

What's the problem?

Some files on the hard drive have been corrupted and now I'm just saving all the files that are ok before deleting the corrupted files, (which won't delete from the external hard drive also.

 

[DSzymborski]

No idea. A good start would be screenshots of the files, your hard drive's space, some information on your components, a history of this corruption problem, things you did, etc. As it is, you really haven't told us much at all about anything related to this issue.

 

[Eamonn100]

How do you upload images to here. It seems to be asking for a http://. Is that not an internet address?

 

[USAFRet]

How do you upload images to here. It seems to be asking for a http://. Is that not an internet address?

Upload your pic to imgur.com, and post the link here.

 

[Eamonn100]

Is there another way as you need a phone to verify things?

 

[USAFRet]

Is there another way as you need a phone to verify things?

You do not need to create an account there.

I've never needed to verify by phone.

 

[Eamonn100]

This is what I get when I try and drag/copy file from external hard drive to PC.

https://imgur.com/iw9GBYO

View: https://imgur.com/iw9GBYO


This in my external hard drive space.

https://imgur.com/eZkbBqC

View: https://imgur.com/eZkbBqC



This is my PC space.

https://imgur.com/tXXolYW

View: https://imgur.com/tXXolYW



This is the files inside my External hard drive that I'm dragging over to my PC.

https://imgur.com/C9Udvsn

View: https://imgur.com/C9Udvsn

 

[Eamonn100]

No idea. A good start would be screenshots of the files, your hard drive's space, some information on your components, a history of this corruption problem, things you did, etc. As it is, you really haven't told us much at all about anything related to this issue.

No history of corruption, this is my first time ever.

 

[Eamonn100]

Hold on there guys. There's just not enough space on my PC. Apologies.

This is a new low.

 

[USAFRet]

Show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Also, install and run WinDirStat.
Run as Administrator.
One drive at a time
Show up the output of that.