The file cannot be loaded onto the flash drive. Files are copied to a flash drive slowly: what to do? How to speed up writing data to a flash drive using software
Hello dear visitors. Yesterday they asked me a question: what should I do? I can't send it off big file to a flash drive? The system says that there is not enough disk space, but there is enough space on the flash drive. It was necessary to copy a movie of about 9 GB in size to a 16 GB flash drive. If you think logically, then everything should fit, but the system refused to put such a large file on a flash drive and that’s it.
I knew what was going on, and while I was explaining what needed to be done, a bright thought appeared in my head that I should write about this on a blog, so I’m actually writing it :). Let me explain why first large files, to be precise, files larger than 4 GB do not want to be written to the flash drive and a message appears that there is not enough disk space.
The fact is that when you buy a flash drive, it is already formatted in the file system FAT32, and the file system is FAT32 does not support files larger than 4 GB. Here's the thing, it's very simple. We need to change the file system of the flash drive from FAT32 to NTFS. Because the NTFS file system supports, if I'm not mistaken, files up to 16 GB.
This question is becoming more and more relevant every day, because the size of memory on flash drives is growing and they are becoming cheaper every day. You can already buy a 16 GB flash drive for the same money that a year ago you could only buy a 4 GB one.
We just need to change the file system of our flash drive from FAT32 to NTFS. I will now write two ways in which this can be done.
Format the flash drive to the NTFS file system
I have already written about how. But I think it wouldn’t hurt to repeat it again and point out Special attention that we are formatting it into an NTFS system.
Attention! Formatting a flash drive will destroy all information on it. Make sure that your flash drive does not contain the files you need. If there are, then copy them to your computer.
We connect the flash drive to the computer, wait until the computer recognizes it, go to "My computer" and press right click mouse to our flash drive, select "Format".
A window will open in which we need to select the NTFS file system, select and click “Start”. We agree to the system warning.
After the formatting process is completed, you will receive a blank flash drive with the NTFS file system, onto which you can copy large files.
Converting a flash drive to NTFS for writing large files
The second method is to simply convert the flash drive to NTFS, this method essentially differs from the first, only in that the files you have on the flash drive will not be lost. But I still advise you not to risk it and copy necessary files on computer.
Our flash drive is connected and recognized by the computer. We go to “Start”, "All programs", “Standard” and select “Run”. Or just press Win+R. A window will open in which we write the command cmd and click “Ok”.
A window will open in which we need to enter a command to convert the flash drive to NTFS:
convert k : /fs:ntfs /nosecurity /x
Where k is the letter that the computer assigned to your flash drive, go to "My computer" and see what letter you have. Enter this command and press “Enter”.
Once completed, a report will appear:
How to transfer a large file to a flash drive? Converting a flash drive to the NTFS file system. updated: December 27, 2012 by: admin
How to solve the problem with slow data copying to a flash drive? Let's look at the common causes of this problem and talk about ways to solve it.
1. Flash drive performance
If everything is in order with the computer, the culprit of the slow process of transferring files to the flash drive is, accordingly, the latter. Budget flash drives, as a rule, cannot boast of impressive data writing speed. And the speed is 5-7 Mb/s with the interface USB connections 2.0 may be commonplace for those. You can test the data writing speed of a flash drive using Windows speed testing programs hard drives, in particular, through the popular utility. You should not expect more speed from the flash drive tests than it will show in reality.
2. Computer USB ports
Purchased for faster data recording USB flash drive 3.0 will work exactly the same as a USB 2.0 flash drive, if only this interface is supported by the computer, and USB 3.0 is not. The flash drive will limit the speed of the port. To get performance when copying data USB interface 3.0, the computer's USB ports must be equipped with it. The same applies to the situation when USB drive 3.0 or 2.0 connects to USB port 1.0. Windows, as a rule, immediately reports that the flash drive is connected to a low-speed USB 1.0 port system notification: They say this device can work faster if it is connected to a USB 2.0 port.
If data is slowly copied to a flash drive that is connected to a USB port on the front panel of the PC case, you can test its speed when connected to USB ports motherboard behind the body. It may be that the front panel of the case has USB ports 2.0 or 1.0, while the motherboard ports provide .
Just like USB ports, which limit the speed of data writing, USB extenders can limit the speed of copying files. If a USB extender provides a USB 2.0 interface, it will throughput will limit the speed of the USB 3.0 flash drive interface and the computer’s USB port.
3. Weak computer hardware
On old or budget models computers, slow data writing to a flash drive may be due to weak hardware, in particular, small volume random access memory or slow hard drive. In this case, only upgrading your computer will help.
4. Drivers
Slow copying of data to a flash drive may be a result of incorrect installed drivers USB. In this case, you can either update the motherboard drivers or reinstall the USB controller drivers. You can update motherboard drivers manually by downloading the necessary installers from the official website of the board or laptop, or you can entrust this task to special programs - driver installation managers. Among them: DriverMax, Auslogics Driver Updater, SlimDrivers, Advanced Driver Updater and so on.
To reinstall USB drivers-controllers open the manager Windows devices, expand the “USB Controllers” branch and use the “Delete” option in context menu For each device in the list, remove its driver.
USB controller drivers will be installed automatically.
5. BIOS settings
In some cases, the slow speed of writing data to a flash drive may be a consequence of limiting the speed of USB ports in the BIOS settings. Such a limitation should be looked for, as a rule, in the advanced section BIOS settings"Advanced". If the “USB 2.0 Controller Mode” parameter is set to “Low-speed”, it needs to be changed to “Hi-speed”.
6. How to speed up writing data to a flash drive using software
If the cause of the problem lies in the low data writing speed of the flash drive itself, unfortunately, it will not be possible to significantly speed up the process of copying files to it. Even if we have a powerful computer. Using software, the file writing speed can be increased only slightly.
If you need to copy several small files to a flash drive, it is better to combine them into one archive file. And place this archive file on the flash drive. One hefty file will be copied faster than a lot of small ones. By the way, when copying small files, even high-performance USB drives can “sag.”
You can slightly speed up the transfer of files to a flash drive using special programs that outperform regular funds Windows copy some share of performance due to its own data copying algorithms. One of these is WinMend File Copy, it can be downloaded for free from the creators’ website www.winmend.com/file-copy.
WinMend File Copy has a Russian-language interface, supports batch copying of files, setting up a buffer, as well as resuming data transfer from the point where it was broken.
Have a great day!
Some users still face the problem of handling files larger than 4 GB.
As a rule, this happens more and more often when downloading files from or somewhere else (because we rarely move files of this size, which means people simply don’t know that they have a similar problem and why they have it).
Error when file is larger than 4 GB
In the case of a torrent, the error looks like this: "One or more files exceed the limit file system size and cannot be loaded."
In other cases, if my memory serves me correctly (and this happens :)), it sounds like “No access. The disk is full or write-protected.”
The crux of the problem is that the file system FAT32(and users encountering similar problem use this particular file system) is supported maximum size file are equal th 4 294 967 296 bytes and nothing more. Nothing can be done about it - that’s how it was intended from the very beginning.
The solution to the problem is to reformat or convert to a file system NTFS.
Solution 1
I’ll start with the second method as the most acceptable:
To start the conversion, do the following.
Start - Execute - cmd
A console will open in front of you. Enter there:
convert D: /fs:ntfs
Where D: is the drive letter you want to convert to NTFS format.
I don’t remember exactly, but I have an opinion that, as in the case of formatting, convert system disk, i.e. the one where the system is currently located will not work. The way out of this is either formatting or connecting hard disk to another computer.
Solution option 2
As for formatting...
It is impossible to do this without losing data, because formatting erases all files from the hard disk, and therefore you either need to be prepared for this and transfer all information to external media or just buy new disk and format it in the file system NTFS. To format, click:
My computer - Right click on the desired disk - Format - File system: NTFS - put tick " Quick formatting" - Begin.
We are waiting for the formatting to finish.
Alternatively, you can cut the files into pieces to move them special programs, but this will not solve the problem in the case of downloading files from the Internet, and is it even worth making a fuss? In addition, changing the file system to NTFS will also have a positive effect on productivity hard drive in and Windows Vista
because both operating systems are made to work with this file system.
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Afterword
That's how things are. If you have questions, ask in the comments.
Attention for users of older operating systems (pre-XP). File system NTFS is not supported by these versions of operating systems, i.e. You will not see the newly reformatted disk if you have one of the versions Windows families 95/98 .
Greetings, dear users! In my previous articles, I have already written articles on the topic of USB storage media, namely, what needs to be done if, or another example, and important data for us remains on it, what to do in such a situation in order to recover data from a flash drive .
If you really don’t know what to do in such situations, then I recommend that you read these articles. Since I started today’s article talking about flash media, today we will learn another useful point, relating directly to the flash drives themselves.
Imagine that you decided to write an image of some program or toy onto your flash drive (by the way, I already wrote an article about what an image is, you can read more). Let's imagine that the volume of your flash drive is 16 GB, and your flash drive is completely empty and formatted. In turn, the volume of the recorded image is about 6 GB. At the moment when you try to write an image to a USB drive, a notification of the following nature appears: “Not enough disk space”. Agree that the appearance of a notification of this kind puts you in a kind of dead end situation, because the flash drive itself is completely empty and has 16 GB free space.
What if we just copy to USB storage a file whose volume is less than 4 GB, then in this case the file itself is successfully placed on the flash drive and no errors associated with a lack of free space occur. The question arises, ?
At one time I also had to deal with similar phenomenon when a 5.7 GB file was not written to removable drive, and another file whose volume was approximately 4.3 GB was written to a flash drive without any problems. So what exactly is the problem then, you ask?
In this article, we will try to understand why files larger than 4-5 GB may not be written to your flash drive. Do you know why such large files are not written to flash media? In general, more and more often, many users who encounter this problem are asking the following questions: how to write a file larger than 4 GB to a flash drive. Regarding the current issue, I can tell you that I have heard different answers, or rather arguments, reasoning from users who have not encountered a similar phenomenon before.
For example, on one of the forums, a user suggested the following answer options: files are not written to the flash drive because there is a virus there, which takes up all the free space disk space flash drive, or the flash drive is damaged or burned out.
I will tell you that in such a situation, when the files large volumes(more than 4-5 GB) are not written to the flash drive, this does not mean that it is damaged or there is some kind of virus on it, malware. And the reason for this is the fact that the flash drive has a FAT32 file system.
By the way, I recommend that you also read my article:
From here you should remember once and for all that this file system is not capable of supporting large volumes of files (more than 4-5 GB) for work.
Therefore, if you want files larger than 4 GB to be successfully copied to a USB drive and then used by you for a specific purpose, then in this case you first of all need a flash drive with the NTFS file system. In general, they say that the NTFS file system has the ability to contact such files, the volume of which can reach up to 16TB. From all of the above it follows that in order to To write a file larger than 4 GB to a flash drive, you will need a flash drive with the NTFS file system. Run specifically to the first store you come across computer equipment It is not worth purchasing such a flash drive.
I suggest you move on to the practical part of this article to clearly see how to independently convert the file system of your flash drive. So, I hope it is now clear to you that we will need to complete a number of necessary actions to create a flash drive with the NTFS file system.
In this article we will look at several options that will allow you to convert the file system. Therefore, if you have difficulties copying large files, then this article will help you solve your problem.
First option:
So, after you have connected the flash drive to your computer, and the latter has successfully identified and recognized the USB drive, you will now need to go to the properties of the removable device.
To do this, open “My Computer” and right-click on the removable device.
From the context menu that appears, select Format. As a result, a special window will open in which you will need to click on the drop-down menu in the “File system” line and select NTFS.
Please note that if there are documents on your removable media, you will need to copy them to your computer.
Then all you have to do is click on the “Start” button. After a short period of time, the removable media will be formatted, after which removable media will have an NTFS file system. However, one caveat should be noted here. If your computer is still using the operating system Windows system XP, then in this case immediately format the flash drive as a file NTFS system will not work.
In such a situation, you will need to open the “Device Manager” and select the value of removable storage, and then, as shown in the figure below, you just have to go to the “Policy” tab to activate the corresponding option.
Finally, you should open the properties of the flash drive again and format it.
After the flash drive is formatted, do not forget to set the parameter value in the “Policy” tab to its original value.
Second Option:
The second option involves changing the file system of a removable device using the “Convert” operation.
To begin, you will need to run command line by clicking on the “Start” button and typing “cmd” in the search bar and then pressing “Enter”.
Now in the window that opens you should set special team, which will perform transformations of the file system of your flash drive. The command looks like this:
Then just press “Enter”. However, you should know that before converting a removable device, you will need to copy all the data to the hard drive, because you risk losing it.
I also draw your attention to the fact that you need to carefully enter the command and indicate correct letter your removable device. Otherwise, the conversion operation will not be completed and an error will appear indicating that the flash drive label is invalid.
At the end of this article, I would like to add that in addition to the above methods, they also resort to using various programs, which also do a good job of changing the file system of a removable drive. However, if there are options for changing the file system that do not require installation software, then it is best to use these simple options, thereby not loading your computer with the installation of unnecessary software.
For today, that’s all I wanted to tell you about today in terms of data transfer via removable devices. Have you ever seen errors of this kind when copying a large file and wondered how to write a file larger than 4 GB to a flash drive? I hope today's article was useful to you. See you all in the next article, dear readers!
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