USB stick says file is too big when it's not

[plasticman]

I'm trying to copy a 6gb .rar file onto my brothers 14 gb USB stick. I formatted the stick with FAT32 but it says that the file is too big for the USB stick. I can copy other small files without a problem. Does anyone know why this is happening?

[123456]

FAT32 has a 4GB file limitation. Meaning a single file cannot be bigger than 4GB. Try splitting the .rar into pieces.

[plasticman]

Is there any way to format the drive differently so t can hold bigger files?

[Sylvander]

Convert the FAT32 partition file system to NTFS.
I'd normally do that using GParted within some Puppy Linux, but modern versions of Windows can do it.

[Paul Komski]

Converting to NTFS would be a way to go but you must first change the default setting so that the drive is optimised for performance. You can then format it directly from My Computer.

[jerry.p009]

wow thanks foe sharing i dont know that fat 32 have limitation of 4gb thanks to @123456 really cool

[123456]

wow thanks foe sharing i dont know that fat 32 have limitation of 4gb thanks to @123456 really cool

No problem. FAT32 is an aging file system that dates back to the Windows 95 days