How To Copy Larger than 4GB file to a Capable Pendrive

Have you ever faced the problem that you are trying to copy a single file larger than 4 GB to your pen drive but it cannot copy even if there is free space more than 4 GB. The error says that the file is too large for the destination file system as show below.

It happens mostly with pen drives with FAT32 File System. The reason behind this problem is limitation of pen drive's file system FAT32. FAT32 only supports less than 4 GB files.

To do it, pen drive shouldn't be FAT32. Instead we can make it NTFS. Windows drives are also NTFS. That is why a file larger than 4 GB can be stored on your hard drive. NTFS supports larger than files 4 GB. To convert in NTFS we must have to format pen drive with NTFS file system.

Before beginning, move your important data to your computer because all data will be lost as we are formatting the pen drive. 

Formatting pen drive with NTFS will not affect the performance or anything of pen drive. Note that you can always re-format it with FAT32 in similar way once you have done your transfer of file. Follow the steps to format your pen drive with NTFS.

Steps:

• Go to My Computer/This PC and Right click on your pen drive. Select "Format" option.
• In the Format Menu, click on "Restore device defaults".
• Now, Select File System with NTFS option.

• Click on Start button to format. Now your pen drive is in NTFS file system. You can copy larger the 4 GB files to your pen drive now.

• To re-format it with FAT32,  Select FAT32 option under File System Menu.