I have a working WD 4TB Hard Drive which was recently removed from a NAS. I performed a DOD (0x000) overwrite with a NTFS format, using the disk utility DiskWipe.exe - a free disk cleaning utility, and have placed it into an external storage enclosure to archive some data.
This gave me a full, empty 4TB drive formatted with NTFS and appeared just like any new hard drive should - both with confirmed logical and physical disk sectors.
So here is the problem:
I have been receiving errors that I cannot copy anymore information to the disk due "The file 'x' is too large for the destination file system.
This is quite strange - the first 2 TB copied fine (many files above 4GB threshold)... and there is 1.63 TB Left.
fsutil fsinfo volumeinfo
as well as the built-in windows properties and disk management screens both list a properly formatted 4TB NTFS drive with 3.63 Logical TB available.
I have tried moving the drive to another computer, which is able to be read from just fine, but that doesn't help.
Just tried to copy a whopping 100kb file, and this even says it cant happen.
Further food for thought: the exact used space on the drive right now is exactly 2.00TB, (2,203,470,118,912 bytes), and when it was in use on the NAS, it was confirmed to hold up to the logicial 3.63 TB.
(I have tried to also run a chkdsk but this command will not run due to WinErrors of "The shadow copy of volume G: could not create shadow copy storage on volume G: - in theory because it still thinks its out of space??)
Anyone have a solution?
vssadmin list shadowstorage:
**Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f9b651b8-76af-47eb-b87f-b3249a2dbda0}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f9b651b8-76af-47eb-b87f-b3249a2dbda0}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 6.97 GB (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 7.36 GB (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 18.6 GB (2%)**
vssadmin list shadowstorage
. You might disable Volume Shadow Copy on the disk (link). Which utility did you use for DOD?fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo G:
in an elevated cmd.