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| 1386678 | 2014-10-22 21:26:00 | I have a 5.5 gig .mp4 file I want to put onto my empty 16 gig Emtec USB stick, but Windows tells me the file is too large for destination. Why would this be? | Greg (193) | ||
| 1386679 | 2014-10-22 21:52:00 | Format the USB as NTFS , or exFAT . Some older XP PC's wont recognize exFat though. It was probably fat32 format, which has a 4G (or is it 2G?) size limit |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1386680 | 2014-10-22 21:53:00 | Have you emptied the recycle bin of files that you have deleted from the drive? Is the drive formatted as FAT32? if so it will not accept a file larger than about 4GB Or maybe the drive is misreporting its size... |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1386681 | 2014-10-23 03:58:00 | +1 for FAT32 being the problem. XP does support exFAT if you install the update www.microsoft.com Did it myself for my work laptop. Had the same problem backing up my email archive earlier today, reformatted an SD card to exFAT and away it went. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1386682 | 2014-10-23 04:05:00 | +1 for FAT32 being the problem. XP does support exFAT if you install the update www.microsoft.com Did it myself for my work laptop. Had the same problem backing up my email archive earlier today, reformatted an SD card to exFAT and away it went. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1386683 | 2014-10-25 09:31:00 | I say with 99.9999% probability the problem is the FAT32 4GB file limit. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1386684 | 2014-10-26 22:11:00 | Dunno why folks assume I'm running XP. And the stick doesn't have a recycle bin. Dur. Meanwhile, yes it was stock with FAT32, and am now re-formatting it to NTFS. I shoulda thought of that. Thanks as always for your help guys. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1386685 | 2014-10-27 06:27:00 | I don't see anywhere anyone said you were using XP. Just that you could format the stick to exFAT, BUT if you did, no XP machine could read it unless you install the exFAT update. NTFS is fine but will be less compatible with other devices. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1386686 | 2014-10-27 07:58:00 | Hi, Just to clear things up, there is no 4GB limitation on FAT32, this misconception is falsely spread around. FAT32 limit is 8TB, the 4GB limitation was on the software provided by Windows at that time and should be fixed in later versions but I'm no longer a Windows user. I know I can't stop this information being spread, but least you guys should know what the issue was regarding FAT32. As for the USB problem, use an alternative program to format it and then partition it as FAT32. This will hopefully show you if there were any issues with the USB stick. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1386687 | 2014-10-27 08:19:00 | Hi, Just to clear things up, there is no 4GB limitation on FAT32, this misconception is falsely spread around. FAT32 limit is 8TB, the 4GB limitation was on the software provided by Windows at that time and should be fixed in later versions but I'm no longer a Windows user. I know I can't stop this information being spread, but least you guys should know what the issue was regarding FAT32. As for the USB problem, use an alternative program to format it and then partition it as FAT32. This will hopefully show you if there were any issues with the USB stick. Cheers, KK You better tell Microsoft that :) what-is-the-maximum-file-size-fat-fat32 (answers.microsoft.com) File size is completely different to Partition size. |
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