Is there a file size limit for USB 2.0?

radderfire · 11 Apr 2009 at 17:41

Hi All

I have made a virtual machine file of my netbook, it's a 22GB file. I want to transfer this onto my external USB 2.0 drive, but I am getting an error saying that there's not enough space on the external drive, when there definitely is. A small file will copy over to the external drive just file.

Can anyone advise what is causing this? Why would the file be too large to transfer via USB?

Will I only be able to transfer such a file via a network?

Thanks

Tomsk · 11 Apr 2009 at 17:43

If the USB drive is formatted with FAT32 (which it probably is) then there will be a 4GB limit.

Mattus · 11 Apr 2009 at 17:48

Yeah, it will probably be related to the disk's file system rather than the connection. If it's FAT32 then it needs to be converted to NTFS to accept files bigger than 4GB.

alex24 · 11 Apr 2009 at 17:49

You can change the filesystem to NTFS usually by formatting the drive, though for flash storage it's not recommended because of the overheads. exFAT might work too, though someone will have to confirm that for me. It's more suited to flash storeage than NTFS.

Mattus · 11 Apr 2009 at 17:51

Or, from a command prompt:

convert x: /FS:NTFS

Where x is the drive letter you want to convert.

(Might want to back it up first.)

alex24 · 11 Apr 2009 at 17:53

Sounds like problem solved to me!

Anyone know much about exFAT though?