Force copy even if Vista calculated that there is not enough disks

Hello,

Ik have about 3Gb of sensitve data which I want to backup to a 4Gb USB flash
drive.

The first time it's OK, but the second time I cannot copy anymore due not
enough diskspace.

Indeed there is only 1 GB free disk space left , but that doesnt matter
since I want to just overwrite the previous files.

But since Vista calculated not enough diskspace, how can I force to start
the copy anyway?

I'm currently helping myself with the command line copy, but I think it's
not to much to ask just to do a normal copy with the GUI which is a basic OS
operation in my opinion: "copy files from A to B and overwrite the files in
B." without having to forseen double diskcapacity than actually needed or buy
other 3th party filemanagers. This should be possible in an operating system
anno 2008....


Any ideas are welcome how to solve it with the Vista GUI. (Don't give me a
solution like: Buy a file manager for windows, I just want to be able to do
this very basic file operation with windows vista itself.

If you want a robust, fast, GUI-driven method of copying files, try
robocopy-GUI. It's a GUI-frontend for the legendary ROBOCOPY tool. =)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../cc160891.aspx

--
Salvador Manaois III
MCSE MCSA CEH MCITP | Enterprise/Server Admin
Bytes & Badz : http://badzmanaois.blogspot.com


"Ringo" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Ik have about 3Gb of sensitve data which I want to backup to a 4Gb USB flash
> drive.
>
> The first time it's OK, but the second time I cannot copy anymore due not
> enough diskspace.
>
> Indeed there is only 1 GB free disk space left , but that doesnt matter
> since I want to just overwrite the previous files.
>
> But since Vista calculated not enough diskspace, how can I force to start
> the copy anyway?
>
> I'm currently helping myself with the command line copy, but I think it's
> not to much to ask just to do a normal copy with the GUI which is a basic OS
> operation in my opinion: "copy files from A to B and overwrite the files in
> B." without having to forseen double diskcapacity than actually needed or buy
> other 3th party filemanagers. This should be possible in an operating system
> anno 2008....
>
>
> Any ideas are welcome how to solve it with the Vista GUI. (Don't give me a
> solution like: Buy a file manager for windows, I just want to be able to do
> this very basic file operation with windows vista itself.
>
>
>
>
>