How come when I write a more than 4 gig file to my thumb drive, it shows my thumb drive full when it is 16 gigs?

Fat32 format has a file size limit of 4 gigs per file transferred. You have to format to NTFS to support bigger files. See this url (http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm) to format your drive to NTFS.

If you cannot format it to NTFS in windows, try the HP USB Disk Storage Format tool available here: http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197 FAT32 is the default setting in Windows XP and there must be a good reason why it is set so. Examining the pros and cons of each system file seems to be a perfect way of portraying the essence of FAT32 system and why we want it to be formatted in NTFS. The following are the pros and cons regarding these file systems and how to enable NTFS system in the hard drive.

NTFS: Pros & Cons Let’s get down to the advantages and disadvantages of FAT32 and NTFS. Advantages: Enabling NTFS in removable storage devices allows us to add allow and deny permissions on individual files and folders for specific Windows users; that’s the function not available in ... more.

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