I'm trying to pass holiday jpg's to my daughter's 2gb pendrive, called trans-it which appears as drive f: I managed to pass from my C: drive to the F: drive about 1.4GB, and then I get the message "can't create directory or drive." Right clicking on the properties I get the pie chart presentation which states that there are 643 MB free. Is this some limitation of the pendrive or is there a way to add more jpgs ? The total I have managed to pass to the F: drive is about 170 files plus 1 big game for my nephew called maple which occupies about 1 GB- Any help would be appreciated as to why the pendrive won't accept more files. Thanks in advance for any ideas. Bye Fred Madrid

If the files are 1.4 Gig in size and there are only 643MB free space, then you don't have enough free space to store all the files. What else is on the drive? "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

If you look at the total capacity of the pendrive in it's properties it probably is less than 2gb. The drive manufacturer's size is probably stated as a decimal size - at least, it always is with hard drives - your mboard bios and Windows see it's size as binary size - same total number of bytes and sectors, but it's smaller as seen as a binary size. decimal 1,000,000,000 bytes/gb binary 1,073,741,824 bytes/gb (1024 bytes/kb X 1024 kb/mb X 1024 mb/gb) decimal 1gb = binary 931.32...mb decimal 2gb = binary 1.8626...gb decimal 4gb = binary 3.7263...gb The manufacturer's stated size is the capacity before it has been partitioned and formatted as well - you always lose some data capacity when you partition and format.

Thanks to both of you for replying. The doubts seem to be focused on the pendrive, PD, itself. Briefly my grandson didn't know how to download whatever the current 'ad sponsered' game is for 11 year olds. The game is big, 1.03GB. I put it on the pendrive for him. So first PD table entry is about 1030MB. That left about 1000MB of free PD memory. I started down loading holiday photos, (jpg typically 1.6MB) interspersed with MOV clips all to a total of about another 400MB. To here I had passed to the PD roughly 1400MB. The properties as read by winXP said it can hold 2048MB, meaning the PB still had free space for another 600MB or so , meaning also I should have been able to add another 300photos. T'was at this point the error message began to appear....("Can't create" etc). The properties as I said, checked out with no errors, ( fragmentation, table error check) so as my grandson was baying to take his game home... the evidence is gone. If there isn't an easy answer to why, then I won't lose much sleep on a defective 2GB, 8 Euro, blue ( I wonder why blue is the favourite dongle colour in my neck of the woods) wonky PD. Bye and thanks anyway Fred

Are you SURE you were seeing 2048mb when you right clicked on it in My Computer and choose Properties? If so, that's excellent - no deception there. I just took a look at two flash drives I have. Apparently the usual thing that always applies to hard drives doesn't necessarily apply to flash drives. 512mb Kingston Traveller In Windows - 477mb - 500,285,400 bytes FAT partitioning Assuming it's a decimal manufacturer's size 512,000,000 - 500,285,400 = 11,714,600 bytes used for partitioning and formatting 512mb Lexar Jump Drive Firefly In Windows - 495mb - 519,274,496 bytes FAT partitioning assuming it's a binary manufacturer's size 536,870,912 - 519,274,496 = 17,596,416 bytes used for partitioning and formatting HUH?

My 2gb pen drive shows 1.88gb capacity if that helps.