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Thread ID: 108316 2010-03-23 22:54:00 Help Im going bananas Q man (14225) Press F1
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869551 2010-03-23 22:54:00 Ok running win 7 64 bit
When I transfer a file say 4gb to my 8gb usb drive it says file to large for destination.
I have tried formatting the drive everything but it still wont frikin work
Now what worries me is that I have a 1Tb drive full of files and I wanted to transfer something onto it, but I got the same problem, so my natural instinct would be to delete something the same size if not bigger than the file I want to move to make up enough room so I start deleting stuff on the Tb drive and it doesnt show that there is any more free space even though I ended up deleting like 100gig
Sorry for the rambling please help
Q man (14225)
869552 2010-03-23 23:21:00 Its probably not NTFS, format it in NTFs. pctek (84)
869553 2010-03-24 01:13:00 Empty your recycle bin zqwerty (97)
869554 2010-03-24 01:50:00 and try a defrag Camiron (7092)
869555 2010-03-24 01:58:00 Q, did you work out the formatting? SolMiester (139)
869556 2010-03-24 05:41:00 Also make sure it's not using space for Readyboost.

cheers
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waldok (15185)
869557 2010-03-25 01:54:00 Man I've been busy
I will try the format the usb drive to ntfs tonight but still not sure whats going on with the 1tb drive its got like 120 HD movies on I am not keen to loose
Q man (14225)
869558 2010-03-25 03:26:00 Regarding the USB drive issue - the problem is it'll be formatted as FAT32 at the moment, which has a max file size of 4GB. Your file is probably slightly over the limit.

Reformatting the drive as NTFS, as Pctek suggests, should fix this issue, as NTFS has a far larger max file size.
Erayd (23)
869559 2010-03-25 03:31:00 Altho, if you do format it in NTFS, if it can be used as a bootable disk, (and you've used it for this before), it may not work now Speedy Gonzales (78)
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