Techy Flash Drive help required

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  1. Googs

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    I've just got a Sony Micro Vault 8Gb flash drive, but have just tried to put a file on there thats 4.2Gb, but it wont transfer it as it says the drive is full, and that I should delete some stuff to enable the file to fit. Now I have formatted it and everything is working fine reagrding all other file types, it just wont accept this 4.2Gb one. Any suggestions?
     
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    not sure if it should make any difference, but is it formatted NFTS. I know that FAT32 has trouble with files over 1GB
     
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    Ah, I seem to think it is mate. Any other way around this changing the type or whatever?
     
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    just checked a couple of my flash drives and found that they will all only format at FAT or FAT32 - no NFTS option, suggesting that they cannot be formatted as NFTS. Since FAT32 cannot cope with files over 1GB I don't think you're gonna be able to get your massive file on there. somehow I think you are going to have to break it up. What software created the file ?- i'm guessing it was created on a drive with an NFTS system. You may need to recreate the file and there may be an option to create it directly to the USB stick which should automatically split it into 1GB files.

    Bear in mind i am not a computer techy so may not be completely correct. If you get conflicting advice from someone in the know they are probably correct rather than me.
    Good luck
     
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    Eddie is right

    But I think 1GB is the FAT16 limit and you can go up to 3.9GB with FAT32

    So if the file is not already a compressed archive, try zipping it or raring it. If the result is less than 4GB try again.

    Failing that, with WinRAR you can split the file up into multiple RAR files. You can then extract these later.

    If however, you absolutely HAVE to have all 4.2GB, in one piece, on a USB stick I can only see one solution.
    It's not for the faint hearted and will take a long time to do. But if it's essential I'll run through it with you.
     
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    Well mate if it was split up I would have no idea what to do with it tbh - it's a movie file. I'm only wanting to transfer it to my PS3 hard drive. I also have a 100Gb external drive - do you think I would be better putting the file onto that, and then transferring it to the PS3 that way through USB? It's not an option I wanted to take tbh as it's set-up a bit strange on my desk - but if thats my best bet then so be it.

    Cheers for the help!
     
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    That sounds a better option. nt
     
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    Cheers mate - will do that then.
     
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