Not enough space on USB hard drive

Hi, I can't work this out maybe someone knows.
I have a external USB drive 40 GIG, 32Gig free FAT32 and I have been trying to save a video file of 4.9 gig onto this drive and it repeatedly tells me the file is to big for this drive and to a clean up to make more space, I have done that several times just to see if it would accept the file after that, but no joy. I transferred a folder with photos 135 MB without any problems, so why will it not transfer (copy) my video file.
Windows tells me the disk is healthy.
hawk22

 

Thanks Arie I should have remembered that.
I was going to format that drive to NTFS but I was not quite shure if that works ok with USB since all USB Flash drives are FAT32.
hawk22

 

Then I need to ask a question. I have a USB WD Passport and its also FAT32. I have ripped DVD movies to this drive that are well over 4GB and never had a problem.

Whats the difference between Hawk22's drive and mine?

I am now confused!

 

Movies are made up of a variety of files, but the largest of them (VOB files) are not more than 1gb each.

Den

 

Thanks Arie, Formatted NTFS and the File copied no problems.
hawk22

 

Thanks for that explination, you're right. I just checked.

 

FYI:

To convert from fat to NTFS without formating.

cmd prompt
type

convert z: /fs:ntfs /v

Change the z: to the drive you are converting. Also /v is optional as it just displays more info on what is happening.

Mike