Tutorial: Transferring a 4GB or larger file to a Pen Drive or Memory Card

This is very typical issue that everybody will suffer when they tried to copy larger than 4GB file into a Pen Drive or memory card. Even though your pendrive is greater than 4GB you cannot copy the file into that.In this tutorial I'll show how to copy 4GB or greater than that into a Pen Drive/memory card.

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The error in the image is saying that the file you are trying to copy is too large to the destination file system. so, for this reason you have to convert the format of the file system whether to exFAT or NTFS. After converting to any of the following operating system you can easily copy the files that are greater than 4GB. 

Steps to convert a Flash Drive fom FAT32 to NTFS:

Step 1: 

Open My computer and Right click on the Pen Drive, there you can find the format option and click on Format.
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Step 2:

After clicking on format button, it will show the options as displayed on the below image. Click on the file system option, there you will find 3 options, for that you have to select NTFS File System and hit start button.
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Step 3:

Press Start, and Windows should warn you once again about erasing any existing information on the drive (as shown in the below image). Again, if you are sure the drive does not contain any irreplaceable documents, confirm that you want to proceed with the formatting. 
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Now you will be able to copy the files larger than 4GB to the drive as you were done before.

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