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| Thread ID: 138277 | 2014-11-02 01:57:00 | file size to big for thumb drive? | Peter Coleman (597) | Press F1 |
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| 1387514 | 2014-11-02 01:57:00 | Hi guys,I have a video file of 4.14G that I want to transfer from my pc to a thumb drive,so I bought 2 drives,1x8G and 1x16G and each time I try to copy the file across to either drive,and they are both brand new and unused,it says "the file is to large for the destination file system".Any ideas? Peter |
Peter Coleman (597) | ||
| 1387515 | 2014-11-02 02:16:00 | The drives are probably formatted as FAT 32 which limits the file size to 4GB. If you reformat one of them to NTFS you should be OK. www.ntfs.com | ninox (17264) | ||
| 1387516 | 2014-11-02 03:01:00 | exFAT would be a better choice for flash drives if you're using modern Windows. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1387517 | 2014-11-02 04:24:00 | Should have remembered that - thanks pcuser42 | ninox (17264) | ||
| 1387518 | 2014-11-02 05:16:00 | exFAT would be a better choice for flash drives if you're using modern Windows. :)When I had this problem recently I did as you suggested and formatted to NTFS, but then no longer needed to move the file. So now I'm wondering why exFAT would be better for next time? | Greg (193) | ||
| 1387519 | 2014-11-02 05:46:00 | When I had this problem recently I did as you suggested and formatted to NTFS, but then no longer needed to move the file. So now I'm wondering why exFAT would be better for next time? Both have their advantages / disadvantages. Theres LOTS of articles and explanations as to why ones better than the other, but the following link provides the basic's :) reikalingas.wordpress.com |
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| 1387520 | 2014-11-02 06:47:00 | Cheers for that. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1387521 | 2014-11-02 08:08:00 | thanks guys,I have reformatted them and alls fine. | Peter Coleman (597) | ||
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