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  • Unable to copy a data more than 4 gb to USB pendrive of 8 GB.

    srinuvasu38

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    Updated: Oct 22, 2024
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    Dear Sir/Madam,
    I (srinivas) bought a 8 GB sony company pendrive. I am unable to copy 4gb data. Please help me how can i copy the same.
    Srinivas
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Oct 27, 2011

    Difficult to guess problem. Are you getting any error/warning messages? Are you copying a single file or multiple files?
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  • srinuvasu38

    Member • Oct 27, 2011

    Thank for responding, the message is unable to copy,it is a single file.
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Oct 27, 2011

    Is it a new pendrive? Have you used it before? Have you tried formatting the pen drive? Have you scanned it for viruses? Is it write protected?

    PS: Asking questions is an art, right? You need to provide as much information you can so that it's easier for us to find out the real problem.
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  • srinuvasu38

    Member • Oct 27, 2011

    Yes, it is new pendrive. I had formatted earlier the same as you said. but the result is same.
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  • Manish Goyal

    Member • Oct 27, 2011

    did you buy it from road 😀 , i have seen many people in Delhi selling such pen driveS claiming 8 gb kingston pendrive at 200 rs , and most of them are found to be duplicate
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  • srinuvasu38

    Member • Oct 27, 2011

    I had bought in shop not from roadside as you said, please give some suggestions regarding this
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  • Reya

    Member • Oct 27, 2011

    @Srinivas: Is it write protected?
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  • ShrinkDWorld

    Member • Oct 29, 2011

    Have you use it before? I think it is a fake pen drive you can reprogram its memory chip & get proper size. Now i am collecting its information. Just start goggling you can easily find the tutorial other wise please remember me i will tell you 😀
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  • cherry!

    Member • Nov 10, 2011

    That is because the limit of file size that u can copy in a single file is 4GB. Your pen drive is working fine
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  • Aashish Joshi

    Member • Nov 16, 2011

    How did you format the pendrive? Did you use FAT or NTFS?

    I remember reading somewhere that it is not possible to copy/create a file of more than 4GB size on a FAT32 file system! Maybe you should try and format it as NTFS.
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  • Mr.Don

    Member • Nov 19, 2011

    Hi Srinu, There is nothing wrong with your pen drive an no need to panic.You had formatted your pen drive in FAT32 format previously and FAT32 will only allow 4 GB in a single file transfer so in order to transfer the file larger than that, you need to require to change the pen drive format into NTFS. In Windows XP, it won't directly show format type NTFS unless you change some properties. I hope this link given below will help you change the format. So Happy Formatting into NTFS mode for large file data transferring 😀
    <a href="https://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">How do I format a USB Flash Drive to NTFS file system? - NTFS.com</a>
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  • vlad brown

    Member • Sep 12, 2018

    You should remove write protection from your USB flash drive. 

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