
However, this would erase all the data in the USB drive, so you could temporarily copy it elsewhere and replace it after formatting.Ģ] Right-click on the USB drive and then on Format.ģ] Change the File system from FAT32 to NTFS.Ĥ] Check the Quick format option to make the process quicker and then click on Start. The resolution to this issue reformat the USB drive and change the File system.

We could copy multiple files to the drive occupying total space equal to the volume of the drive, but no single file could be more than 4GB in size.

This forces a policy to the USB drive that no single file more than 4GB of size could be copied to the drive. The cause is that the USB drive has been FAT32 formatted. Despite the fact that the USB drive is empty, you would face this error. Let us suppose you have a 16GB USB drive, however, you are trying to copy a 4.6GB file to it.

This error typically occurs with USB drives when the user tries to copy a single file larger than 4GB in size, despite the fact that the USB drive has sufficient space for it.
