Flash Drive smarter than you'd think?

[ahhaa]

I had a flash drive transfer going that went over the drive's capacity (a Verbatim drive). It came up with a message to insert another disk (like a stone age floppy would've done). I cancelled out because the files I actually needed to tranfer were already on the flashdrive.

I was surprised at the other machine, when doing the transfer that it asked that I insert the second disk to continue... apparently there is a file splitter capability somewhere in the flash management system.
I couldn't find it on the flash drive so I'm thinking its something windows does... ?
this could be handy for moving humungeous video files-if it always works.

[Krispy Kritter]

Very surprising indeed. I'd expect XP to treat this as a HDD and just give a "not enough space" error.

[redwudz]

I don't think it would split your files. It would just not write the file that went over the limit. Then if you inserted a new drive, it would try to put that file and the rest on it. This would all be a PITA if the file was only a few KBs over the amount of room left on the first drive.

And I think that's all a feature of the OS. (And I have never tried it with a flash drive, so I don't know that it would work. )

[ViRaL1]

It's nothing special. The operating system sees it as a removable disk, like a stone age floppy. With the exception of wanting you to stop the drive before you unplug it, it pretty much treats them the same. As far as splitting, you might run into a problem as unplugging that flash drive and plugging in another one (especially a different brand or even model) will more than likely result in a different drive letter. The old drive letter will go away upon unplugging and most likely kill the file transfer.