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Files corrupted on USB thumb drive???

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by dkulmacz

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I recently purchased two 4GB USB thumb drives to use for MP3 storage. They are both formatted as FAT32 (the only option I seem to have).

When I try to copy MP3 files onto the drives, all works well until I move about 900MB of data. After that, any new files I transfer are corrupt . . . I can't play them, or delete them, and if I remove the drive and replace it I see odd files and directories on the drive. This happens with both drives, and I've reformatted both many times, scanned for errors, etc.

My HD is formatted as a NTFS drive. I've tried reformatting the USB drives as either FAT or NTFS using various utilities, but get errors when I try this.

This is driving me crazy . . . any suggestions???

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by captbilly1eye

Have you tried using a different computer to plug either of the sticks into to then transfer files?
What brand are the sticks?
The sticks I have are all using regular FAT rather than FAT32 and I know NTFS often won't work.

by Former member

You may need to have several different directories from the root directory. If I recall correctly, FAT only allows 512 root entries.

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