Recently, I purchased a USB 16 Gig Centon DataStick Pro to transfer "stuff" between my two computers. One is XP Home, the other XP Pro. I have had no problems with most transfers, documents, music etc., up to 14.5 Gigs at a time, until I tried transferring more than 10 Gigs of a movie avi. I get an error message stating that the drive is full and that I need to erase files in order to make room. However, the DataStick was empty at the time. When I click on the properties tab, it says the "E" drive has 15.1 Gigs of free space! MediaInfo says the avi file is 10.1 gigs. There should be plenty of room!
I once transferred four smaller avi's at one time, a total of 14 Gigs, but the larger avi, even by itself, will not. I have tried other large avi files, but they will not transfer into the drive either. None of them were larger than 12 Gigs. It seems like 8 - 9 Gigs is the limit for an avi file. It does not matter which computer I try to use. Now, as this is my first stick, I can truthfully say that I'm not that familiar with them. I must point out that both the computer hard drives have NTFS file systems, but the DataStick is FAT 32. Could this be the problem, or did I buy a lemon? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
