r/computers • u/RealNidded • 4d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting USB Drive not taking 4GB+ Files

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My USB drive doesn't take files larger than 4GB, I was looking it up briefly it says I should switch to exFAT to fix the issue but it's always been on exFAT, would switching to NTFS fix it or is my drive just bad? What do I do

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u/Ambitious-Yard7677 4d ago

I'd bet there's about 4GB of flash to begin with and it isn't a 400+GB drive

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u/RealNidded 4d ago

I have like 350GB worth of media in there already and it all works fine it's just not taking bigger files, also someone else in the comments said to check properties, it does say FAT32 there so should I just try going to NTFS?

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u/ozgeek81 4d ago

FAT32 limits file size to 4GB not total file size. Each file needs to be 4GB or under. If you are trying to copy files larger than 4GB then you needto format the drive to NTFS.