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Cannot copy file to USB flash drive

I have bought "CORSAIR Flash Voyager 16GB Flash Drive" and it works fine on my Vista PC computer. I can both copy new files to the drive and drag files from the drive to PC.
However, when I plug my flash drive to my Macbook it appears on my desktop. I am able to get files from my flash drive to my Macbook but when I try to copy any file from my Macbook's hard drive to the flash drive I get an error message. It says: "The item [item name] could not be moved because [flash drive name] cannot be modified." I tried to format my drive on my PC and it did not help. I tried restarting my Macbook - no success.
So, what could be the problem and how could I fix it?
Thanks in advance!

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.4), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Oct 24, 2008 12:28 PM

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Oct 24, 2008 1:16 PM in response to .deiviuxs

My flash drive is formated using NTFS and I formated it using this system because I can copy large files to my flash drive (ex. 8GB). I do not want to use FAT32 because then I could only copy files smaller than 4GB and I have some files that are larger than 4GB. That's why I bought a 16GB flash drive. Is it possible to use NTFS or FAT32 but be able to transfer larger files? Thanks!

Cannot copy file to USB flash drive

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