Flash Drives

[wintertime]

Why do Flash Drives(sticks) not take a download sometimes?I just bought a 64GB stick and it would not take a 8GBfile.It's the age old question("Is it me?)
I have found this on other Flash drives.Is there any way to overcome this?I would welcome a answer if there is one.Thanks.

 

[Jamoo]

As usual: more details please!
What OS? What format has your USB Stick?

usually usb sticks are pre-formatted in FAT32 because it works for all operating systems.
But disadvantage is: u cannot store files bigger than 4GB on FAT formatted drives/sticks

Solution: you need to re-format your Stick to NTFS (Windows), ext3 (Linux)
or MacOS extendedJournal (MacOS)

Do a backup from this stick/partition before, because all datas will be erased during this process.

 

[gb2000ie]

Why do Flash Drives(sticks) not take a download sometimes?I just bought a 64GB stick and it would not take a 8GBfile.It's the age old question("Is it me?)
I have found this on other Flash drives.Is there any way to overcome this?I would welcome a answer if there is one.Thanks.

Given how little information you've given us to work with, the best educated guess I can make is the file system the differnt drives are formatted with.

Some older versions Microsoft's file systems can't deal with individual files larger than 2GB or 4GB in size.

If thumbdrive can't take big files, a good troubleshooting step would be to take all your files off, re-format the drive in the new ExFAT format, then try again. That will most probably resolve the issue.

Note that for cross-platform compatability - even Mac and Linux users should format their flash drives as ExFAT.

B.

 

[Jamoo]

i think it's not that complicated, regarding his older posts he has Windows10 so i guess it's just a FAT32 issue and he needs NTFS

 

[gb2000ie]

i think it's not that complicated, regarding his older posts he has Windows10 so i guess it's just a FAT32 issue and he needs NTFS

I'd strongly recommend against NTFS for a thumb drive - it's designed to go from computer to computer, so you get no advantages from the extra owner attributes NTFS brings to the table.

A much better fit is the modernised version of FAT - ExFAT - it'll just work no matter what OS you plug it into, and it can handle absolutely massive files.

http://anon.projectarchive.net/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

B.

 

[wintertime]

flash drive

It's an Optima 3.0 drive.64gb.Not sure of anything else

 

[gb2000ie]

It's an Optima 3.0 drive.64gb.Not sure of anything else

That sounds like a modern thumb drive, so it seems certain to me the problem is the filesystem it was formatted with. At a guess - probably FAT32.

If you want to save big files onto it, you'll need to re-format it to ExFAT.

What you still haven't told us is what OS you use. Obviously we can't help you with the formatting if we don't know what OS you have.

B.

 

[wintertime]

Flash reply

Sorry to be thick gb2000ie but what is OS?I was told that when these are bought there are already some files on the drive.I am still learning on some things like this.
Thanks

 

[Jamoo]

OS = Operating System, it's probably Windows 10 in your case regarding one of your earlier requests

often google can give you an answer too ^^


there is a tiny how to, you can use filesystem "exFAT" instead "NTFS" as recommended by gb2000ie, of course you don't need to rename the Label if you dont want^.
And do a backub from existing files before because they will be erased!
watch it directly on youtube for better view