Why can't write 4Gb file onto flash drive with 10Gb free? [duplicate]
Trying to write 4Gb video file onto flash drive with 10Gb free and it says
How can it be?
Flash drive is writable. Smaller files can be created / written.
That drive is formatted as FAT32. FAT32 doesn't support file sizes over 4GB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32
Your Flash drive have currently the File system as FAT32. You need to have the file system as NTFS so you can be able to copy files more than 4 Gb size.
To do this, you have two solutions :
1 - Convert it from FAT32 to NTFS by doing the following:
Go to cmd and type the following :
convert G: /FS:NTFS
G: (G is your flash drive letter as your picture shows)
(You will not loose any existing data on it when converting)
2 - Format your Flash Drive and choose NTFS as File System
(You will loose all the data on it)