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Right-click the USB drive in File Explorer and select “ Format“.You can copy these files back to the USB drive after formatting it.

Back up the existing files on your USB drive by copying them to some other drive.

To change a USB drive’s file system from FAT32 to NTFS or exFAT in Windows 11 or Windows 10, follow the steps below. If you have any important files and data on the USB drive, copy them to a safe place before formatting the drive. Note that formatting a drive will wipe the drive and erase all data on it. Therefore, you will need to format your USB drive to NTFS or exFAT file system before you can copy any files larger than 4 GB to it. There is no way to unlock the maximum file size limit on a FAT32 formatted USB drive.

In order to transfer an individual file larger than 4 GB in size to a USB storage drive, the drive has to be formatted with either NTFS or exFAT file system.