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Thread ID: 24216	2002-09-06 00:57:00	Blue screen during large file copy from cd	mongrel (1788)	Press F1

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76896	2002-09-06 00:57:00	Hi there.....whenver I try to copy a file larger than about 300 meg I get a blue screen...it happens in 98, 2k and XP....the only way I have been able to get around this is by doing it in dos...but that is a pain. Anybody have any ideas????? Have tried different cd drives before anybody suggests that..... Cheers	mongrel (1788)
76897	2002-09-06 04:15:00	It could be that Windows is trying to do the whole copy in a huge RAM buffer. When it runs out it might be needing too much swap space. Of course, this shouldn't cause it to crash, but ... You do have enough disk room? Not too fragmented? Obviously DOS is still better. ]:)	Graham L (2)
76898	2002-09-06 04:19:00	well I have a 700 meg fixed pagefile......the copy always gets to about 60% and then the free ram drops constantly until is is no more.....problem is that the pagefile size hardly changes at all....... disk is clean as.....defraged once a week :-) dos is better yes.......but I have to boot into dos to do it...not just use a dos prompt....that would not bother me :-)	mongrel (1788)
76899	2002-09-06 04:25:00	But the free memory should not diminish to zero. Ever. And even getting low should not cause a crash. Ever. Windows is supposed to have memory management. Perhaps MS modeled the MM software on the "new economy market driven knowledge wave " management techniques, as demonstrated by by World.com, Enron, Air NZ, ...	Graham L (2)
76900	2002-09-06 04:39:00	Exactly....not much point in having a page file if the dumb ass OS doesn't try and use it........it is as if the OS cannot recognised that there is a whopping pagefile there.....	mongrel (1788)
76901	2002-09-06 05:36:00	How do you get a file bigger than 300 MB? You didn't type it in ... :D . Does Windows have a maximum allowable file size? I have an idea that there is a limit but it might be a couple of GB (32 bits ..), but I would have thought that such a limit would cause a fauklt in DOS too.	Graham L (2)
76902	2002-09-06 05:46:00	antivirus? sounds like something is hoging the resouces. seen the same problem with systems running harddrives in compatiablity mode. check motherboard drivers.	tweak'e (174)
76903	2002-09-06 06:32:00	Does it say where the problem is? I've found Blue Screens related to CDFS.VXD can be caused by: - Damaged CDs - CD drive taking too long to spinup / read. - Damaged IDE cable.	bmason (508)
76904	2002-09-06 06:34:00	But it seems that the file(s?) can be copied in DOS. So the hardware is working.	Graham L (2)
76905	2002-09-06 06:46:00	> But it seems that the file(s?) can be copied in DOS. > So the hardware is working. Good point, my guess is anti-virus software wanting to read the entire file before committing it to the hard disk	antmannz (28)
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