Problem with USB flash drive

lindawill95 · Feb 10, 2016

Hi there,

I bought a SanDisk Cruzer 32 GB flash drive and wanted to transfer a movie to it. The movie is in HD format and has about 4.5 GB, so it should easily fit on the flash drive.
Well, every time I've tried to copy the movie it says that the file is too large and there's not enough space on the flash drive. I tried the same thing with a couple of other movies and the same dialog box kept popping.
Do you have any idea what should I do?

Frick · Feb 10, 2016

Format it as NTFS. Fat32 only supports files up to ~4GB.

lindawill95 · Feb 10, 2016

Frick said:
Format it as NTFS. Fat32 only supports files up to ~4GB.

Thank you. I didn't know I should that.

Frick · Feb 10, 2016

lindawill95 said:
Thank you. I didn't know I should that.

I scratched my head about it a few months back, because I haven't used FAT32 in a very long time. Then I thought about file systems and how FAT32 is ... 32bit ie can only adress up to 2^32 bits IE about 4GB.

lindawill95 · Feb 10, 2016

Frick said:
I scratched my head about it a few months back, because I haven't used FAT32 in a very long time. Then I thought about file systems and how FAT32 is ... 32bit ie can only adress up to 2^32 bits IE about 4GB.

Just formatted the flash drive as NTFS, then copied the movie. Works beautifully!
Thanks a lot.

SnakeDoctor · Feb 10, 2016

lindawill95 said:
Just formatted the flash drive as NTFS, then copied the movie. Works beautifully!
Thanks a lot.

The only issue with NTFS is if going to use flash drive in a car radio(mps3's) or Dvd player , they don't normally support NTFS otherwise it is the best option .Just so you know

lindawill95 · Feb 10, 2016

SnakeDoctor said:
The only issue with NTFS is if going to use flash drive in a car radio(mps3's) or Dvd player , they don't normally support NTFS otherwise it is the best option .Just so you know

Thanks for the info

. I intend on using the flash drive strictly to watch movies. I stick it in my tv and that's it.

Jetster · Feb 10, 2016

SnakeDoctor said:
The only issue with NTFS is if going to use flash drive in a car radio(mps3's) or Dvd player , they don't normally support NTFS otherwise it is the best option .Just so you know

Or BIOS flashing requires fat

SnakeDoctor · Feb 10, 2016

lindawill95 said:
Thanks for the info . I intend on using the flash drive strictly to watch movies. I stick it in my tv and that's it.

Hopefully the tv supports ntfs , Enjoy

lindawill95 · Feb 10, 2016

SnakeDoctor said:
Hopefully the tv supports ntfs , Enjoy

Jus tried it. It does support NTFS.

newtekie1 · Feb 10, 2016

SnakeDoctor said:
The only issue with NTFS is if going to use flash drive in a car radio(mps3's) or Dvd player , they don't normally support NTFS otherwise it is the best option .Just so you know

IMO, NTFS isn't the best option for removable media like flash drives. Instead exFAT is the better option.

taz420nj · Feb 11, 2016

Yeah exFAT is the way to go. It still won't be compatible with devices that require FAT or FAT32, but you're more likely to find an exFAT compatible device than NTFS.

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