On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:44:59 UTC, "MJP" <mjpjunk32@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suspect that the drive is formatted FAT32 that can only handle files up to
4gb in size. Format the drive with NTFS and it should transfer the file.
Presumably USB drives can be formatted using any filesystem? I'm
thinking of Linux ext2, but also HPFS.
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