USB FLASH DRIVE WON`T WRITE MORE THAN 506 MB ON 2 GB FLASH CARD

[finneyj]

Have a Sandisk USB 12 in 1 card reader. While trying to copy pictures to the
2GB SD card it gets about 3/4 of the way through, stops copying and gives the
message " unable to create / copy file or directory". Windows reports all 2GB
of the card. I have tried this with different readers, SD card, CFcard. I
tried copying the files one by one. I`m guessing this is a Windows issue i`ve
tried this on my other PC and it does the same thing, stops at the same exact
spot. Does windows have some sort of size limitation on flash drives? Does
the flash card need to be formatted NTFS or Fat? This is driving me nuts.

Thanks

 

[PW]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:25:01 -0800, finneyj
<finneyj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Have a Sandisk USB 12 in 1 card reader. While trying to copy pictures to the
>2GB SD card it gets about 3/4 of the way through, stops copying and gives the
>message " unable to create / copy file or directory". Windows reports all 2GB
>of the card. I have tried this with different readers, SD card, CFcard. I
>tried copying the files one by one. I`m guessing this is a Windows issue i`ve
>tried this on my other PC and it does the same thing, stops at the same exact
>spot. Does windows have some sort of size limitation on flash drives? Does
>the flash card need to be formatted NTFS or Fat? This is driving me nuts.
>
>Thanks

I had the same problem with a 2GB CF2 card (SanDisk, as a matter of
fact). It was formated in FAT32. I reformatted the card (NTFS - I
think) and now all 2 GBs are usable. Right-click on the card in your
card reader and select reformat. Am using XP Pro.

-pw

 

[finneyj]

Re: USB FLASH DRIVE WON`T WRITE MORE THAN 506 MB ON 2 GB FLASH CAR

PW, Thanks for the tip......IT WORKED. I found the flash cards were formatted
just fat. I formatted them FAT 32 and it worked. Thanks!

"PW" wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:25:01 -0800, finneyj
> <finneyj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Have a Sandisk USB 12 in 1 card reader. While trying to copy pictures to the
> >2GB SD card it gets about 3/4 of the way through, stops copying and gives the
> >message " unable to create / copy file or directory". Windows reports all 2GB
> >of the card. I have tried this with different readers, SD card, CFcard. I
> >tried copying the files one by one. I`m guessing this is a Windows issue i`ve
> >tried this on my other PC and it does the same thing, stops at the same exact
> >spot. Does windows have some sort of size limitation on flash drives? Does
> >the flash card need to be formatted NTFS or Fat? This is driving me nuts.
> >
> >Thanks
>
> I had the same problem with a 2GB CF2 card (SanDisk, as a matter of
> fact). It was formated in FAT32. I reformatted the card (NTFS - I
> think) and now all 2 GBs are usable. Right-click on the card in your
> card reader and select reformat. Am using XP Pro.
>
> -pw
>