Why can’t I copy a 4 GB movie to my USB drive despite having plenty of space?
I plugged in a USB drive that already contains five episodes and has worked normally with many devices. It still shows about 50 GB of free space, but…
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Why can’t I copy a 4 GB movie to my USB drive even though it has plenty of free space?
I plugged in a USB drive that already contains five episodes of a series, and it has worked normally through many connections. However, when I tried copying a…
Should I use ext4 or exFAT when formatting a drive for Linux?
I'm wiping a drive that I may later use as the destination for cloning another drive. It currently uses an ext3/ext4 filesystem, and I'm wondering whether there are…
Should I format this drive as ext4 or exFAT for Linux?
I'm wiping a drive now and may clone another drive onto it later. Its current filesystem is ext3/ext4, so I'm wondering whether I should format it as ext4…
Why can’t I copy a large Windows 11 ISO to my USB drive?
I'm trying to put a Windows 11 disk image (ISO) on an 80 GB USB drive. The drive appears to have plenty of free space and is supposedly…
Why won’t my Windows 11 ISO copy to an 80 GB USB drive?
I'm trying to put a Windows 11 disk image (ISO) on an 80 GB USB drive. The drive appears to be formatted as exFAT and has plenty of…
What USB format supports files larger than 4 GB on Windows 11?
I'm not very experienced with computers, so I'd appreciate a simple explanation. I bought a 128 GB Lexar flash drive and need to copy six files onto it,…
What USB format supports files larger than 4 GB?
I'm not very experienced with computers, so I'd appreciate a simple explanation. I bought a 128 GB Lexar flash drive and want to copy six files onto it,…
Why does copying many small files to my FAT32 USB drive fail around 2GB?
I'm trying to copy a 40GB folder containing mostly screenshots to a 128GB USB drive formatted as FAT32. The transfer consistently fails about halfway through, when one screenshot…
Why won’t my iPhone 13 Pro recognize my exFAT external drive?
I'm trying to connect a 1TB SanDisk Extreme Pro external drive to my iPhone 13 Pro, but it never appears in the Files app. The drive is formatted…
Why won’t my iPhone 13 Pro recognize an exFAT SanDisk drive?
I'm trying to use a 1TB SanDisk Extreme Pro external drive with my iPhone 13 Pro, but it never appears in the Files app. The drive is formatted…
Will Fedora KDE work with my exFAT external drive?
I'm considering switching my computer to Fedora KDE, but my regularly used external drive is currently formatted as exFAT. It contains music, videos, games, and other files. Will…
Will Fedora KDE work with my exFAT external drive?
I'm considering switching my computer to Fedora KDE, but my regularly used external drive is formatted as exFAT. It contains music, videos, games, and other files. Will Fedora…
New 2TB External Drive Became RAW and Now Won’t Format
I bought a new 2TB Seagate external hard drive and tried to reformat it as exFAT with quick formatting disabled. The process failed with "The volume label is…
How can I recover a folder that disappeared during a Windows file transfer?
I was helping a friend copy files from an old hard drive before reformatting it from NTFS to exFAT. I created a folder on my Windows desktop and…
How can I recover a folder that disappeared during a hard-drive transfer?
I was helping a friend prepare an old hard drive for reformatting from NTFS to exFAT. Before formatting it, I created a folder on my Windows desktop and…
Can I dual-boot Windows 11 and Linux with a shared data partition?
I want to install Windows 11 and Linux on the same physical drive and keep my personal files on a separate partition that both operating systems can access.…
Can I dual-boot Windows 11 and Linux with a shared data partition?
I want to install Windows 11 and Linux on the same drive, while keeping personal files on a separate partition that both operating systems can access. Is this…
Should I Use exFAT or NTFS for an External Drive With Video Files?
I have an external hard drive that is currently formatted as exFAT. I'll mainly use it for storing and watching large video files from a Windows laptop, but…
What filesystem should I use to share documents between Windows and Linux?
I'm planning to make Linux my primary operating system while keeping Windows available for a few applications that don't work properly under Linux. My preferred setup is Linux…