Question : My Kingston USB flash stick has over 14GB of free space, but I cannot copy a 7GB file to the USB drive. Windows 10 pops up warning 'The file 'xx' is too large for the destination file system'. Is there a FAT32 4GB limit workaround? Answer : Yes, it is highly possible that your USB flash stick is on FAT32, which is a file system that doesn't allow the transfer of an individual file over 4GB. Find the solution in this tutorial. See if Your Storage Device is FAT32 Connect your storage device to a Windows computer. Open Windows Explorer (My Computer). Right-click on the storage device, and choose Properties. See if the 'File System:' is FAT32. FAT32 4GB Limit Simply speaking, people cannot copy or move an individual file over 4GB to a FAT32 drive, even if they have enough free space on the drive. The reason is that FAT32 was de...
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