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STATUS_FVE_TOO_SMALL
Meaning and context of STATUS_FVE_TOO_SMALL
This code is about usable free space during the requested operation. It should not be confused with STATUS_FVE_VOLUME_TOO_SMALL, which describes a drive whose overall capacity is too small for BitLocker protection.
Measure available space on the actual target volume and check whether another conversion, resize, backup, or maintenance task is consuming space or holding the volume state. The relevant remedy is to meet the operation’s free-space requirement or select an appropriate supported encryption workflow—not to remove recovery protectors.
After capacity is corrected, re-check the conversion and protection state before retrying. A later read or write failure during conversion is a different class of problem and is reported by the conversion I/O statuses.
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Native status interpretation
STATUS_FVE_TOO_SMALL is 0xC0210003, an NTSTATUS error value. AllStat describes it as “The volume cannot be encrypted because it does not have enough free space.”
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