problems with 32gb USB drive

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I think I got ripped off or something. I bought this brand new Adata C008 32GB jump drive for only $20 but it keeps giving me problems whenever I try to put files on there. There's a bunch of video files I tried to copy onto the drive so I could clean out my computer. Once in a while a few of the video files will give me an error that won't let me try again but when I select skip it completely messes up all the other files that were already copied onto the drive. I almost lost some valuable writing files as a result but numerous data recovery programs are all over my computer and now it's even more of a mess.

I'm really worried that I got ripped off or something because I attempted to copy numerous files several times and each time it's a different video file giving me problems. Is it a problem with the drive and do I need to reformat? Or should I be more cautious and not copy so many video files at once onto the jump drive? Why am I getting these errors that keep messing up the other files? I'm not good with computers so the simpler the explanation the better.

32GB sounds very low capacity, even for $20. Why not just take it back to the shop and tell them it is faulty? If you can't do that maybe your best option is to try to reformat it and take note of any error messages about bad sectors etc that may indicate it is faulty.

Interesting problem. If you do solve it post it here because I'm curious what could cause those errors. In the back of my mind I'm thinking about the type of format on your drive. Some of these drives are formatted as NTFS, some FAT32. FAT32 has a file size imit of 4gb, NT doesn't. I'm thinking your videos are over 4gb? The NT file system, BTW, has a file size limit of 16 TB! Isn't that nice?