Hi Boys and Girls
I am having a few problems coping large files to a USB thumb drive (Home to Work). It seems anything over 1024MB (1 Gig) just will not copy, it will either fail "directory too deep" although it is in the root of the drive or in a folder off of the root of the drive OR it will seemly have copied fine but when you put it into another PC the thumb drive is seen as 0kb device. the other PC see's the device fine as it is listed in the safe to remove hardware list but only see's it as 0kb. Both machines are NTFS (WinXP 32bit to Vista 32 & 64 bit).
I have been getting round this problem by burning the work to a DVD whilst I atempted to find the casue (mostly google searches and reading forum posts and the links provide) bu nothing suggested has made it possible. I have read that it may be a limitation of the file system that a/single file cannot be more than a certain size in order to copy to an external USB device but the poster of that information didn't or couldn't point to anything that backed up that claim. i have end tried connecting an old 32gig hard d rive via a IDE/SATA > USB clip dodar but again the same thing happens.
Any ideas people?
I am having a few problems coping large files to a USB thumb drive (Home to Work). It seems anything over 1024MB (1 Gig) just will not copy, it will either fail "directory too deep" although it is in the root of the drive or in a folder off of the root of the drive OR it will seemly have copied fine but when you put it into another PC the thumb drive is seen as 0kb device. the other PC see's the device fine as it is listed in the safe to remove hardware list but only see's it as 0kb. Both machines are NTFS (WinXP 32bit to Vista 32 & 64 bit).
I have been getting round this problem by burning the work to a DVD whilst I atempted to find the casue (mostly google searches and reading forum posts and the links provide) bu nothing suggested has made it possible. I have read that it may be a limitation of the file system that a/single file cannot be more than a certain size in order to copy to an external USB device but the poster of that information didn't or couldn't point to anything that backed up that claim. i have end tried connecting an old 32gig hard d rive via a IDE/SATA > USB clip dodar but again the same thing happens.
Any ideas people?