Explorer does not "explore"

stelch · Post by **stelch** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:38 pm

Hi
I am using Windows XP Professional SP3 and I have 2 Hard drives. One for the operating system and one to store my videos (320GB) that I produce using Ulead (Corel now) VideoStudio 11.5+. Everything works fine but when I want to copy or cut or to just view the properties of these files on my second drive, using Explorer, when I put my mouse on the particular file (usually +/- 5,000,000KB) then I get the following message:
" The instruction at " 0x052b415b" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "written"
Click OK to terminate the program
Click CANCEL to debug the program,"

Any idea why do I get this?

Stelios

Post by **jparnold** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:48 am

I do not know what is causing this problem but I would try splitting that large video file into small files and then check to see if the problem continues. I am guessing that explorer cannot handle files larger than 4096000.
Let me know what happens.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:54 am

And the logical corollary to John's question is whether that hard drive is formatted using FAT32 or NTFS...

Post by **jparnold** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:25 am

(Hi Ken)
I'm not sure if the system would store a file that large if the HD was formatted at FAT32. I thought of that too which makes the problem even more interesting (if the system allowed such a large file to be written to disk why can't explorer select it) - it's strange.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:25 am

Ah yes -- wasn't thinking straight. The mouse hover was the clue I overlooked. Since the file over 4 GB is there, it must be NTFS...

It's just that I have FAT32 on the brain recently as the Sony PlayStation 3 will only see FAT32, and thus the high definition files it will play (brilliantly) must be under 4 GB... But that doesn't help Stelios...