Cannot copy file to USB memory stick

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I have a Tevion 8GB USB Memory stick which has been working. It uses FAT32.
Today with all files deleted I tried to copy an mkv video file but I
received a message which said:

"Copy

The disk in the destination drive is full.
Insert a new disk to continue"

The disc capacity is 8,070,836,224 bytes (7.51GB) and only 4096 bytes are
used

I reformatted the USB drive again FAT32 but still cannot copy this file
although I can copy other large files and folders files to it e.g. DVD, AVI
etc.

Renaming the MKV file to avi still had the same result.

Is there a Windows limitation to adding such a large file to a USB Memory
stick?

regards,

"nobody"
 
nobody said:
I have a Tevion 8GB USB Memory stick which has been working. It uses
FAT32. Today with all files deleted I tried to copy an mkv video file but
I received a message which said:

"Copy

The disk in the destination drive is full.
Insert a new disk to continue"

The disc capacity is 8,070,836,224 bytes (7.51GB) and only 4096 bytes are
used

I reformatted the USB drive again FAT32 but still cannot copy this file
although I can copy other large files and folders files to it e.g. DVD,
AVI etc.

Renaming the MKV file to avi still had the same result.

Is there a Windows limitation to adding such a large file to a USB Memory
stick?

regards,

"nobody"
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Is the file > 4 GB? FAT32 can't handle it.
 
Thip said:
Is the file > 4 GB? FAT32 can't handle it.
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Yes its 7Gb and see now from you and Pagasus that FAT32 cannot handle it.
There does not appear to be an option in XP to format this drive as NTFS.
My four hard disks are NTFS.

Is there a way to get XP to format it NTFS?

regards,

"nobody"
 
nobody said:
Yes its 7Gb and see now from you and Pagasus that FAT32 cannot handle it.
There does not appear to be an option in XP to format this drive as NTFS.
My four hard disks are NTFS.

Is there a way to get XP to format it NTFS?

regards,

"nobody"
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I've managed to do this. I'll not be using this stick very often so the
extra writes will not be a problem

regards,

"nobody"
 
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