PST FILE

Asim Ibrahim

Dear Friends

I am using MS OUTLOOK 2003 with Windows XP Pro SP2. I am facing a problem
while i am trying to oped some item in my PST FILE. it appox 4 GB and
following message is appeard

"Unable to display the folder. The file C:\DOC................. could not be
accessed. There is not enough space on the disk"

my C: drive is 20 GB in total and 12 GB is fee space.

Please help me accordingly.

Thanking you and best regards.

Asim Ibrahim
Assistant Manager IT
GAEL

nickh@oii-usa.com

Check to see if your hard disk is formatted as FAT32... If it is, files are limited to 4GB (thus your PST shows up as full even though you have free space).
-->Right Click on the drive from my computer and choose properties, there you should see file system (NTFS, FAT32, etc).

If it is FAT32, you can use convert.exe to convert it over to NTFS
-->make a backup of everything first as this will effect your entire HD
-->Open a command prompt Start / Run / cmd
-->Enter: CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS /V /X
--> Where C:\ is the drive you want to convert
--> /FS:NTFS this means that the volume is to be converted to NTFS.
--> /V this means that Convert should tell you what is happening or what it's doing
--> /X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary. (This may make your computer reboot)

Some other options are (just add them after the /X if you think they apply):
/CvtArea:filename
Specifies a contiguous file in the root directory to be
the place holder for NTFS system files.
/NoSecurity Specifies the converted files and directories security
settings to be accessible by everyone.

Albin

Have you checked correctly, Is it 4 GB.??
I think this space is too much for a PST file.

Regards
Albin

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