Windows will not copy file to pen drive

philjayj · 25 Apr 2008 at 19:56

Firstly, I apologise if this is in the wrong place, wasnt sure where to put it.

I have a 16GB pen drive, which at the minute, is empty. I have tried to copy a 7.5GB file to the drive, but Windows XP Pro says there is not enough space.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Paul91 · 25 Apr 2008 at 19:59

Your drive is probably formatted using FAT32 which can not cope with files larger than around 4GB.

philjayj · 25 Apr 2008 at 20:02

Thanks for the quick reply, I'll convert the drive and see what happens.

RobH · 25 Apr 2008 at 20:03

Yup, you need to format it with something like NTFS which will allow much larger files to be stored. If you need to have it as FAT32 for compatibility reasons then you could always archive the file into a multi-part archive made up of smaller chunks.

philjayj · 25 Apr 2008 at 20:04

Thanks for the replies guys, I formatted the drive to NTFS and the file is copying over.

Many thanks