Like think of this you're I think I finally get it your telling me you got a 5 gig partion right and 40 gig free space not in that partion. It don't exist to the first partion. It's not there you can't write to it from the first partion. Then I think your telling me it's got 2.5 gig free space right? Garbage can takes up 10% of 5 gig that's 500 meg you only got 2 gig free then you got a file allocation table that could easily be 400 meg no problem. so you got 1.66 gig left what is the mistery the drive fills and it crashes. That's not Vue that's your computer is screwed up cause it's not set up properly... What is the mistery here? D'oh !