thumb drive help

[Crosshairs]

So I have an 8Gb thumb drive and a 5.1 Gb Avi file...
I try and put the AVI on the drive and it tells me "destination drive full"..WTF...the thumb drive has nothing on it?

 

[maddude]

My guess is the flash drive is formated in FAT32, which has a file limitation of 4 gigs or so. Reformat the flash drive to NTFS and you'll be good to go.

 

[Crosshairs]

it does show as FAT 32, but it does not give me the option to format it as NTSF..

EDIT: figured out how to change it and all is good...thanks so much for th help..

 

[bobdole369]

When your thumb drive is formatted with ntfs you MUST use "safely remove hardware". If you just yank it - data can be lost.

gratz on finding the fat32 4GB file limitation.