And that will exactly show you the current system file type of your disk. Connect the USB flash drive, right-click on it, click on properties.

To verify the file type of your system external disk or USB flash drive. In comparison, for NTFS, the maximum size of a single file is support to 16TB. And your external disk is formatted with the FAT32 file size limit, you cannot transfer the single file size larger than 4GB. There is a limitation in the FAT16 & FAT32 file systems.

If your USB disk is formatted with the FAT16, it supports the transfer of the maximum file size of a single file is 2GB. This is the problem because one of the files you want to transfer is larger than 4 GB and your external drive or USB flash drive is formatted with FAT16 or FAT32 file system. In this article, we will help you understand the cause of the problem and direct you on how to solve it. You will notice, when you transfer a single file larger than 4GB size, you will always see this problem, while you have enough free space in your external disk to store that file. When you try to transfer or copy a large file to your external drive, USB disk, or other partition, you may receive an error The file is too large for the destination file system.

Too large for destination file system