Help with USB

Yesterday I've got a new USB:
Patriot Xporter XT Boost 16GB Flash Drive (USB 2.0 Portable) Model PEF16GUSB.

Before that I had an 8 GB and when I wanted to get a HD movie on it to watch on TV it said that a single file can't be bigger than 4 GB.

THE QUESTION: What's the max. size of one file now? Is it 8 GB or it's still 4 GB?

Thanks + Rep for good answers

You have to format the flash drive to NTFS. FAT doesn't accept more than 4GB.

Originally Posted by Hispiforce

You have to format the flash drive to NTFS. FAT doesn't accept more than 4GB.

I Think You Solved The Problem

Originally Posted by Hispiforce

You have to format the flash drive to NTFS. FAT doesn't accept more than 4GB.

^This. Just rightclick on your Stick in the explorer, and choose format, set File-System to NTFS, and youre fine.

Originally Posted by Hispiforce

You have to format the flash drive to NTFS. FAT doesn't accept more than 4GB.

this exactly.,

Everything should be NTFS. Hella better than FAT.

FAT is useless, NTFS ftw

ITT: people forget 99.9% of TVs can't handle ntfs

Originally Posted by Alen

ITT: people forget 99.9% of TVs can't handle ntfs

I usually format my flash drives to FAT32 anyways. Very rarely do I have files that are 4GB+ that I need to transfer, and when I do, I have much larger storage devices that are NTFS.

It's all about the FORMAT.

this is why buy a USB portable HDD, (not a one that runs on power), partition 2 sections on that drive, 1 NTFS, 1 FAT 32, then you can do 1 for movies via tv etc, and 1 for computer file tranfers.

I like ntfs

Well who doesnt

So if I format it to NTFS, the file size will be able to be bigger than 4 GB but wouldn't work on TV?

Make it NTFS

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