VanguardLH, Zilbandy,

...or convert the USB drive to NTFS.

Well, thats easy (or so I thought): Just reformat the stick (it was empty).

Well, not *that* easy: while the format selection was easy enough to find in
the context menu it didn't give me an NTFS option (wtf?) ....

It turns out you first you have to right-click the drive - "properties" -
tab "hardware" (yeah, Hardware!) - select the USB stick (again) -
"properties" (again) - "Policies" and than select "optimize performance"
(aka: enable caching) before the formatting-option NTFS will be available
for the stick (not that they mention that there).

You thought that that was all ? No sirree -- If you try to format the drive
thru the "disk management" console (under settings - administrative tools)
you stil won't get the NTFS option (huh?!). That one only pops up when you
right-click the drive in "file explorer" and than select format. Go figure.

Yeah, lost a bit of time because of that non-integration (selecting NTFS as
the format? Popup a message that caching will be enabled too) and
inconsistant behaviour (two non-matching "format a drive" windows). :-(

Regards,
Rudy Wieser






VanguardLH schreef in berichtnieuws
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R.Wieser wrote:

The format is Fat32. It does return the correct free space, both in
"windows explorer" as to a DIR command.

You have run into a maximum file size supported by a particular file
system.

The maximum file size in FAT32 is 4,294,967,295 bytes (4 GiB - 1). You
will have to slice up the file into multiple parts to continue using
FAT32 or convert the USB drive to NTFS.