Copying a 6 GB file onto a 16 GB empty USB memory stick causes a "disk full" message ?

Hello VanguardLH,

I/we just gave the hint, not the procedure.

What I wrote there was just to vent my own frustration about having wasted
time & energy at imagining what could have been wrong with my machine not
showing NTFS as a "format this storage" option, and why the method of
enabeling it is stuck so deep into the settings that you would not find it
other than by obtaining specific information to it (read: using google), as
well as warning other people running into the same problem (phew, a single
sentence spanning five lines).

It was not aimed at anyone here. To you and the others I'm just gratefull
for your help.

After getting a hint, and if you needed more info, you could your
own online search

:-) I did ! But only *after* I realized that there was/is nothing wrong
with my OS and the problem must therefore lie somewhere else. And no, I
did not expect you guys to "just tell me everything", but I surely didn't
expect the OS to simply hide the NTFS option due to a (to me) more-or-less
unrelated option hidden 6 levels deep. Hence my frustration.

By the way, the Microsoft article provided by Zilbandy didn't
work to convert FAT32 to NTFS on a USB drive?

As the USB stick was empty I did not even consider using that method, as
just reformatting would than the most efficient.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser




VanguardLH schreef in berichtnieuws
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R.Wieser wrote:
(after fixing the quoting indentation)

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

Zilbandy (paraphrased),

...or convert the USB drive to NTFS.

VanguardLH,

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.

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.

I/we just gave the hint, not the procedure. We wouldn't know your
expertise level and it's a waste of time to recite what someone might
already know, plus some folks take offense at you offering what they
consider simpleton advice as though you've insulted their intelligence.
If they come back and ask "how" is when more info can be provided but
this is not a chat room with instant feedback so it could be hours or
days before there are replies.

Sometimes a hint is all that is needed and the poster may not even come
back with an update after finding the solution so the respondents get no
feedback if their suggestions helped or not. There are a lot of
drive-by posts. Someone might tell you to run 'chkdsk' but figure you
knew 'chkdsk /?' to get its command-line arguments, you could look in
Windows help, or you could look it up online.

After getting a hint, and if you needed more info, you could your own
online search on, say, "format usb drive ntfs" to find:

http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_6177473_form...ives-ntfs.html
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/comp...rmat-usb-ntfs/

As you see, I'm naturally verbose. Reading skills and attention spans
have waned, especially since the introduction of the Web, and many
Usenetizens get dazed or tune out when having to read more than a
hundred words. A reply like this one is beyond their communication
skills.

By the way, the Microsoft article provided by Zilbandy didn't work to
convert FAT32 to NTFS on a USB drive? I found several articles that
reinforce Zilbandy's suggestion. Or did you not even try it?