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    Flash Drive Question

    I just purchased a brand new 16GB SanDisk USB memory stick and I just tried putting a 5gb movie file on it and it says the file was too large. What the heck could be the problem?

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    you need to format it to fat32. Or ExFat

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    Thanks. ExFat worked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by healios612 View Post
    you need to format it to fat32. Or ExFat
    Fat32 would be a wrong answer as it can't store files bigger then approximately 4GB.

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    Yeah, the problem is it IS in Fat32. ExFAT or NTFS fixes the issue (however also makes the drive unwriteable on Macs, and unreadable on older stuff)
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