I am trying to move some large video files from the hard drive of my laptop to a desktop via a USB flash drive. The flash drive capacity is 16 GB. One of the video file is 6 GB and when I try to move it onto the flash drive I get an error message that says "the file is too large for the destination file system." I confirmed that there was far more than enough room on the flash drive for the file so why does it give me the error message? I am running windows Vista 32 bit on the laptop. Is there a setting somwhere in control panel or elsewhere that I can change to make it work? I am familiar with how to use regedit.
USB Flash Drive Question
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Nevermind, I found the answer. If anyone else has the same problem I found the answer by typing " usb flash drive file too large file system" into yahoo as a keyword search and I found the following:
Scott Hanselman - The Duh Files - The file is too large for the destination file system
It is an explanation of how to convert your flash drive to the ntfs file system which will let you move files larger than 4 GB onto the flash drive.
Scott Hanselman - The Duh Files - The file is too large for the destination file system
It is an explanation of how to convert your flash drive to the ntfs file system which will let you move files larger than 4 GB onto the flash drive.
Depending upon what you may use your USB drive with in the future, keep in mind that you have it as NTFS. You may need to convert it back to FAT16 to work in some devices like DVD/Blu-Ray players, car sereos and PCs with old OS' like Win98.
Another thing you can try is use WinRAR or 7Zip to break the 1 large file into multiple smaller files.
Another thing you can try is use WinRAR or 7Zip to break the 1 large file into multiple smaller files.
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Good info!
I was going to suggest the file system too though! :lol:
I was going to suggest the file system too though! :lol:
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