Cant copy 9Gb file to USB hard drive (450Gb).

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Boot up with Linux LiveCD like Ubuntu or Gpartedhttp://www.livecdlist.com
and format USB stick to ext2.
Its 10x faster than windummy file systems.
And then copy the file from HD to USB.
If you want to read ext2 formatted USB sticks,
from windummy OSen, use a driver such as that available fromhttp://www.fs-driver.org

(If you cannot format the drive to ext2 or the file does
 not copy, its probable you were sold a 'fake memory' device.
 The OS in the embedded CPU inside the flash disk has
 been tampered with to report more memory than it has.
 It all seems to work until you write a large file
 or many files as the device keeps circulating back.
 You can't then recover the old files, or if its a long
 file, the write operation can't be verified).

The liveCDs are free and can be useful for a myriad of
stuff like repairing hard disk when it can't boot and
so on.
(more distros here:http://www.distrowatch.com)
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Get out of here with that shit, fanboy.
First of all, he said it was a 450GB drive, meaning an external drive
and not a USB stick.

Secondly, he said he formatted it in NTFS which is a Windows format.
If he formats it in ext2 then it's not going to be readable by
Windows. If he has to install that driver to read the damn thing then
he's going to have to install it on every machine he wants to read his
external drive from, which is asinine.
 
Not.

You ABSOLUTE STUPID FSCK - its 10x faster if you used ext2.

Who pays the bill waiting for 9Gb file copy?

Defrag the drive over USB? That will take years!
There is no need with ext2.

Stop promoting windump crap NTFS. It is crap.
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Typical over-sensitive fanboy. GO back to your basement and play with
your Star Trek dolls.
 
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