margiotta Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I bought the Corsair Flash Voyager 32G yesterday and it does not work properly. At leased not as I anticipated. I thought I could use it as a regular USB pin, however when dragging/copping files to it, like one normally does in windows XP, Windows returns the message that the disk is full. It will only handle 950 MB worth of files, while indeed it is supposed to hold approximately 31 times that. Strange. Does anybody have the same problem? How can it be solved? I would like to use the normal windows procedures, not the included software that encodes. I sure it is unique to have such a system integrated, however the files are already protected. Can anybody help me? Best regard Gunnar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Try this. NOTE: THIS WILL ERASE THE DRIVE. from a command Prompt Format (X:) /FS:NTFS /U (X=the drive letter assigned to the Flash Voyager). And you may have to change the properties of the drive to non removable to format to NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 4, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 4, 2008 Also what is the size of the files? You would have the FAT File limitations to contend with if the there are more than whats allowed. Please see the File Allocation Table From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, as I think you are just hitting a limitation of the file system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margiotta Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 The files are from 750 MB to 4G. So I am guessing I am crossing that “glass ceiling” with regards to the FAT system. Damn. Is there not any other possible solutions? My intention was to use the USB pin to save the backups at work. I am not pleased with using DVDs all the time. Could the USB pin somehow be formatted to that memory system? Would that help? Best regards G Also what is the size of the files? You would have the FAT File limitations to contend with if the there are more than whats allowed. Please see the File Allocation Table From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, as I think you are just hitting a limitation of the file system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 8, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 8, 2008 You can format it with NTFS and you will not have that limitation however, you would have to use it in a Windows 2000 or newer system only. You can change the drive properties in Device Manager and then click on Properties for the drive and then click on the Policy Tab and change it to non removable and click OK and then you will see the option to Format in NTFS. You can change it back after you format it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margiotta Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Thank you for taking the time to solve my problem. . Runing on NTFS she now works like a beauty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 11, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 11, 2008 Great and thank you for letting me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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