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I am trying to copy a 22GB mov file to a Kengiston 32GB flash Drive with 29GB free space formated FAT32 - Error message not enough space. I have tired this on both MAC and PC platforms - similar erros. I also tried a SanDisk 32 GB Comapct Flash card.
 

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Cannot copy a file greater than 4GB to a FAT32 formatted drive..you have to use either Mac OS FS or NTFS..
 

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The PC will be able to read NTFS not HFS. In order to read HFS from a PC you'll need a Windows driver. Best to format the flash drive to NTFS which you will have to do from your PC.
 
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You cant copy from OSX to an NTFS drive without special software, however.
 

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