Here is an answer that sums the problem and solution. This will work for the majority of the problems of this type:

“Installation was fine, plugged it in and it set itself up (winxp pro), but then I tried copying a video file approx 8gb from my pc’s internal HDD and I got an error message saying ‘confirm stream loss’ and that there was a problem with associated files, I tried continuing and then I got another error message telling me that there wasn’t enough space!! :confused:

Obviously there was, and so I was a bit confused, I tried renaming and re-associating the file with another program but it still wouldn’t copy, although I COULD copy the file to my other internal HDD!

After a bit of googling I discovered that it was because my new external drive was formatted as FAT32 not NTFS.
I then reformatted to NTFS and now the file copies OK.
”

The external drive manufacturers are trying to make their drives compatible with older machines but having compatibility with everything is very difficult.

Olan Butler - Lenexa Computer Repair

P.S. If you try to copy from one external drive to another sometimes you just get the “not enough diskspace” error. Now that’s confusing!!!

Hope this helps.