Kingston Memory Stick Won'T Load Files Over 4Gb

[Daffy D]

I have a couple of Kingston memory sticks (thumb drives) that I pug into the TV to watch movies downloaded from the computer.

Everything was working fine till I tried to put a 5gb movie on the memory stick and got the "disk full" message.

It was a 8gb memory stick that had over 6gb free space on it so the 5gb movie should have loaded. I thought maybe there were some leftover files that were taking up space so I deleted the whole stick but still the file would not load. Next I formatted the stick to make sure it was completely empty but still the 5gb movie would not load.

Tried another memory stick with over 10gb of free space but still got the "disk full" message.

I then did some experimenting loading files of different size files till the stick had filled to the full 8gb so no problem there. I then tried files of increasing size and got up to 4gb to load. So there seems to be a cut-off point between 4-5gb.

Anyone else come across this problem? I've never heard any mention of file size limits on a memory stick.

AND before anyone asks, yes the Kingston sticks are genuine, they come from a well known computer shop and have the laser writing on the metal plug.

[Slip]

Is it something to do with the formatting? I seem to remember that one of the format methods (NFTS or FAT32 I can't remember which) won't take files over 4GB- sorry to be vague but this happened to me quite some time ago.

EDIT: PAL? Really?

[Turkleton]

Next I formatted the stick to make sure it was completely empty but still the 5gb movie would not load.

If you formatted the stick with "FAT32", it cannot work. Format the stick with the "NTFS" filesystem (if possible)

"Fat 32" cannot handle files above 4 GB.

[Slip]

https://www.google.com/search?q=flash+drive+4gb+limit&rlz=1C1AVSX_enTH391TH391&aq=f&sugexp=chrome,mod=5&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Daffy D]

Is it something to do with the formatting? I seem to remember that one of the format methods (NFTS or FAT32 I can't remember which) won't take files over 4GB- sorry to be vague but this happened to me quite some time ago.

EDIT: PAL? Really?

Wow! that was quick.

When formatting the stick I only get the FAT 32 option, so not much choice for me there :-)

[Ginkas]

If you format to FAT32 (the default for a USB thumbdrive) it cannot handle files over 4GB - that's its limit.

You have to choose to format it to NTFS, then it can handle larger files.

Hope your TV can handle NTFS, some of the older players would only accept FAT.

[killowato]

Like turkleton said format with ntfs sorted

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[Daffy D]

Thanks for quick responses,

Not really a problem as I can download smaller versions of movies, just curious to know why it was not working.

Thanks

[rakman]

Check the TV specs to make sure it will read NTFS, being that NTFS is a Windows format, it might not.

Also, if you use Linux, you can read the ntfs but not write to it with Linux, natively.

[AyG]

Also, if you use Linux, you can read the ntfs but not write to it with Linux, natively.

This hasn't been true for a few years now. Packages such as ntfs-3g (which is in the Ubuntu repositories) provides full read/write support for NTFS. There are also a couple of commercial Linux drivers.

[Langsuan Man]

Is it something to do with the formatting? I seem to remember that one of the format methods (NFTS or FAT32 I can't remember which) won't take files over 4GB- sorry to be vague but this happened to me quite some time ago.

EDIT: PAL? Really?

Wow! that was quick.

When formatting the stick I only get the FAT 32 option, so not much choice for me there :-)

Yes, there is, you must use the command prompt method to format it to NFTS

To convert a volume to NTFS from the command prompt

1. 
   Open Command Prompt. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
   
2. 
   In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs
   

For example, typing convert D: /fs:ntfs would format drive D: with the ntfs format. You can convert FAT or FAT32 volumes to NTFS with this command.

source:

http://technet.micro...y/bb456984.aspx

[ThaidDown]

HP USB Format Tool is an tiny (96KB) old but effective way to format usb's as FAT or NTFS

Available from Softpedia http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

Does not say Win7 (its old) but does work (for me), single file .exe, no installation, run as administrator.

[irishken]

i would guess that they are fake 8 gb cards.believe me i bought 32gb cards that shown 32gb when you check on your computer but when you load over 4gb the files get corrupt.they will play up to 4gb.very cleverly done and not easy for the buyer to notice.google 4gb 32gb upgrade fakes and you will see

[BuddhistVirus]

i would guess that they are fake 8 gb cards.believe me i bought 32gb cards that shown 32gb when you check on your computer but when you load over 4gb the files get corrupt.they will play up to 4gb.very cleverly done and not easy for the buyer to notice.google 4gb 32gb upgrade fakes and you will see

Even a genuine cards won't take files more than 4gb if formatted in FAT32 as discussed above.

[Sayonarax]

Try reformatting to NTFS silly. Fat32 is limited to 4gb files

[Sayonarax]

i would guess that they are fake 8 gb cards.believe me i bought 32gb cards that shown 32gb when you check on your computer but when you load over 4gb the files get corrupt.they will play up to 4gb.very cleverly done and not easy for the buyer to notice.google 4gb 32gb upgrade fakes and you will see

Fake cards were common when flashdrives were rather expensive.

[Daffy D]

Eary way to format USB stick to NTFS:-

http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm

:-)