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    I have no issues copying databases a hundred times that size on NTFS (which has a max theoretical file size of 16 ExoBytes, and has for years and years), so it sounds like the error message is a false positive, or you don't actually have enough freespace on the disk. Or it could be a USB problem I suppose. have you run a chkdsk /f on the usb disk recently? it may be time.
    – Frank Thomas
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 16:51
  • It's actually a brand new hard drive, with only about 33 GB of files copied to it already (the smaller, successful copies were first, coincidentally)
    – elmer007
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 17:00
  • Did you try to copy the database file onto your internal hard drive first? Do you -- maybe -- get the same error?
    – daniel.heydebreck
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 17:01
  • @daniel.neumann That's a good suggestion, and I'm trying that now (it'll be awhile due to the connection speed). However, I'm hesitant to troubleshoot the file to intently as I have received the same error for 5 different files attempted (I started this process by selecting all the files and copying them at once, which resulted in me clicking "Skip" when the error showed, only to have the same error for every file one-by-one over the course of many hours)
    – elmer007
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 17:09
  • Happened to my friend yesterday. Sounds stupid but he rebooted and was fine after that.
    – Austin
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 17:21