can't copy on pendrive

[jayantadak]

Hi,
I was having a 5 GB movie content my drive, which i wanted to copy on the 8 GB pendrive. The pendrive already had been used to 10% of its capacity. When i tried to copy the 5 GB movie file, it gave me a message that the Destination drive (i.e. pendrive) is full, and need to delete some folders/files from my pen-drive. Actually I had no reason to do so, but still I emptied my pendrive and again tried to copy, but still the same message popped up saying the above. This time I formatted the Pendrive, again tried but no luck. It still says that the pendrive is full. I tried with other movie files to copy, I was able to successfully copy them, but this particular movie file is unable to be copied. Can anyone give their opinions on the above matter.

P.S. I am expecting replies of "Corrupt files" or virus infested movie file. Anything else apart from these two...... Kindly let me know.

Regards and thanks

JAYANT, Mumbai, India.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

your "pendrive" or more commonly known as flashdrive - is formated with FAT32 File system. FAT32 has File size limit which is 2 GB .
Split the file into pieces. Probably rar with no compression would be easiest way to do it

 

[jamie2112]

Plug your flash drive into your computer and dump the trash,the drive should be empty then.You have to empty your trash while the flash in inserted.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Plug your flash drive into your computer and dump the trash,the drive should be empty then.You have to empty your trash while the flash in inserted.

Huh ??
Jamie can I smoke some of the stuff you're smocking??

 

[digicidal]

BSA is undoubtedly correct in assuming that it's FAT32 formatted. However, I'm pretty sure the file size limitation is actually 4GB not 2GB. Regardless, it is still smaller than the file you're trying to transfer obviously.

If both systems you plan on using the drive on are Windows 2000 or later, or any reasonably current mainstream Linux variant - you could simply format the flashdrive as NTFS and get past that limitation.

If everything you are using is running Windows7 or Vista then you could even go with exFAT - however, I would recommend against that unless you're positive you will never want to use it with anything else. NTFS is nice because pretty much everything can read it now and (with a patch in some cases) write to it as well. With NTFS you will lose a tiny bit more capacity to filesystem overhead - but you can copy files as large as any flash drive you'll be able to buy in the next 50 years or so.