Comments on: SQLAuthority News – USB Drive Fails to Copy Large File

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:42:45 +0000

Yep, that’s the badger :-) Ta muchly

By: Kuldip

Kuldip — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:07:34 +0000

nice tips and thanks for sharing your problem and solution.

By: manoj sawkar

manoj sawkar — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:07:32 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing your experience with us.

By: John

John — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:41:14 +0000

If you already have data on your drive, you can convert it to NTFS without loss of data and without formatting it. The command is:

convert X: /fs:ntfs

substituting the right drive letter. The command has been around since at least NT4, and still works on Windows 7.

By: Jean

Jean — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:40:17 +0000

Pinal, one of our techies here encountered the same thing, also with virtual PC files. Those can get humongous as you know. I believe he found out that there is a limit on the file size that Windows can copy. He had to find a utility to do it. Unfortunately I do not remember what it was. He is on vacation right now but will be back on Monday the 17th. If you have not found a solution by then I will ask him what it was.

By: Gogula

Gogula — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:26:51 +0000

Yep, I remember having this issue once on my office PC. If you work on an Windows XP machine (such as my office PC) and have formatted your USB drive from it, it would only use FAT32. NTFS is not an option unless it is Windows Vista or higher

By: Jim McLeod

Jim McLeod — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:15:36 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I feel your pain – I had the exact same problem when I was running a course a couple of months back – the VPC image wouldn’t fit on the FAT32-formatted USB drive. Like you, I fixed it by reformatting via the GUI.

Good tip on the Convert tool – I hadn’t heard of that before.

By: Dhaval Faria

Dhaval Faria — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:32:23 +0000

instead of formating.. convert command line can be used to convert FAT to NTFS.