File size too large

[Corndogman]

I'm trying to copy an .iso file onto my 8 gb flash drive. The file is 6 gb, yet every time I try to copy it it says the file is too large to be copied onto the device. I formatted the device just to be sure there wasn't a problem with it, and made sure no other programs were using the file (which shouldn't matter anyways.) Still no luck.

WTF is wrong?

[Saggy]

Is the USB FAT or NTFS

[Corndogman]

FAT, but I've always been able to copy large files like this onto it so idk, whats different this time.

[Saggy]

FAT can only hold files <4GB

Try formatting the drive to be NTFS
http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm

[Corndogman]

Yep, that worked thanks a lot saggy. I never knew that about FAT. I must have had it formatted to NTFS at one point before because I know I've copied files that large before.

E: While I've got this thread I have another problem. For some reason explorer.exe will gradually start to take up more and more CPU power, it gets up to like 95% and my PC comes to a halt. I've just been ending the process and restarting it until it goes back up again then repeating. It doesn't effect me too much unless I'm using the explorer. I did a scan with AVG about a week ago and didn't have any viruses, but maybe I do so idk. Any Ideas?

[Llama Juice]

What OS and is it up to date?

[Amit]

Get this: My WD MyBook 500GB External Hard Drive came formatted as FAT32. I'd never had an external hard drive before so I didn't even look at what it was formatted as, otherwise I would have raped that shit into NTFS oblivion. It wasn't until a year after when I was transferring my really large ISO backups to the drive that I couldn't get the damn files to fit. I looked it up and it said the MyBooks came formatted as FAT32. Sure enough, when I looked at the properties for the drive, I was horrified to find it formatted as FAT32. I cursed like an Irishman because I have no way to move off the files off the External HDD and reformat it to NTFS. So I'm still stuck with large files easting up my internal hard drives.

[Heathen]

Yep, that worked thanks a lot saggy. I never knew that about FAT. I must have had it formatted to NTFS at one point before because I know I've copied files that large before.

E: While I've got this thread I have another problem. For some reason explorer.exe will gradually start to take up more and more CPU power, it gets up to like 95% and my PC comes to a halt. I've just been ending the process and restarting it until it goes back up again then repeating. It doesn't effect me too much unless I'm using the explorer. I did a scan with AVG about a week ago and didn't have any viruses, but maybe I do so idk. Any Ideas?

As a temporary fix, you could get maxmem, then set it to agressive.

[Corndogman]

What OS and is it up to date?

Vista and yes.

Heathen, I will look into it.

E: Yeah that program does fix the problem so I will just stick with that unless someone suggests a permanent fix. Its also helping me save memory so that's p cool, thanks for turning me onto it Heathen.