USB flash drive?

[sexmeup]

I tried to tranfer a .ISO file which is about 4.3GB to my Kingston Datatraveler 8GB.
But for some reason it did not want to transfer over!
I tried clicking on it and holding it down and bring it over to the flash drive.
I tried copying it and pasting it on the flash drive.
For some reason it is saying that the file is too big to transfer over.
Now mind you I use a window xp-home/pro edition. And when I did all this about it's my cousin's computer which is Vista. I also format the flash drive just in case that affects it(Vista).
Still is repeats itself over. File is to big/large to tranfer over. I think it also said file can't transfer cause of destination, whatever that means cause I don't know.
Anyone can help or provide info?

 

[Gentle Ben]

has it been locked? I'm not sure if some Kingston drives have a lock out

 

[Radio_Shack]

What is the drive formated as? Like FAT32/NTFS/FAT ? Maybe hit limit on what format you have and need reformat to other .. ie NTFS is good

file-size limit on FAT32 is (2^32)-1 bytes, or one byte less than a full 4GB.

 

[sexmeup]

Not sure about the lock out, never even knew about that.

Flash drive was formated FAT32.
Radio_Shack-"Maybe hit limit on what format you have and need reformat to other .."->What do you mean, please explain? Thankyou.

 

[Radio_Shack]

Not sure about the lock out, never even knew about that.

Flash drive was formated FAT32.
Radio_Shack-"Maybe hit limit on what format you have and need reformat to other .."->What do you mean, please explain? Thankyou.

Reformat the thing to NTFS:

To enable NTFS on your drive, right click My Computer and select Manage. Open the Device Manager and find your USB drive under the Disk Drives heading. Right click the drive and select Properties, then go to the Policies tab and select the "Optimize for performance" option and Click OK.

Once you do that, open up My Computer and right click on the flash drive and select Format. There you will see that you now have the option to format to NTFS in the File System dropdown box.

 

[sexmeup]

More to come...

FAT32 was set to default.
Allocation unit size was set to "Default allocation size".
"Allocation unit size" give you other options besides the Default allocation size, 512 bytes, 1024 bytes, 2048 bytes, 4096 bytes, 8192 bytes, 16 kilobytes, 32 kilobytes, and 64 kilobytes.
Oh by the way, what is the Default allocation size?
Mind you this is on Vista. On XP(home/pro) some of this options don't show.
Thanks everyone!

 

[sexmeup]

I've been checking up on this on the net for more info, some of it I don't understand but I get the general idea.
Thanks for you help!! The NTFS worked.

I was just curious, when you buy a usb flash drive, are they already set up so that you don't have to format it?(meaning it's already formatted and ready to just use on the spot)
If it's formatted already, what/how was it set up to?(as in what format)
What I do is when I get a new usb flash drive I usually format it first before I use it. Do I have to really do that?

 

[WoodPeckr]

New usb drives are usually formatted in FAT32.
NTFS is a better file system to use.
It's worth going to NTFS and doesn't take long to format to NTFS.

 

[sexmeup]

Good to know, thanks!!