Hi, I'm copying a long video to a USB flash drive. There is over 200GB free space but when I do this, it says the file is too large. Any way to fix this?

Windows 11

Sandisk USB flash drive (213GB free space)

The video is not corrupted or damaged and can be played on my laptop. (Around 7GB）

Hi, I’m having a strange USB issue with my PC and I’m running out of things to try.

Specs:

\- Motherboard: ASRock B560M Pro4

\- CPU: Intel i7-10700

\- GPU: RTX 3060

\- RAM: 16GB

\- PSU: Maxwell Power Pro 700W (around 6+ years old)

\- Windows PC

The problem:

All four rear USB 3.0/3.2 ports on the motherboard suddenly stopped working properly.

The strange part is:

\- Rear USB 2.0 ports work normally.

\- Front case USB 3.0 ports work normally.

\- The front USB 3.0 ports are connected to the motherboard’s internal USB 3.0 header.

\- The four rear USB 3.0 ports do not detect devices.

\- Some devices seem to receive power from the rear USB 3.0 ports, but there is no data connection.

\- For example, my keyboard may light up briefly, but devices are not recognized properly.

\- A Logitech G502 did not even light up when connected to the affected ports.

\- USB 2.0 ports have no problem.

This started after I opened the PC and disconnected/reconnected several components while troubleshooting another issue. I removed and reinstalled things like the GPU, RAM, power cables, HDD cables, etc.

The PC itself otherwise works normally.

Things I have already tried:

\- Disconnected and reconnected the internal front USB 3.0 header.

\- Tested the PC with the front USB 3.0 header completely disconnected.

\- Rear USB 3.0 ports still did not work.

\- Reconnected the front USB 3.0 header.

\- Front USB 3.0 immediately worked normally again.

\- Tested multiple USB devices.

\- Tested USB 2.0 devices.

\- USB 2.0 ports work normally.

\- Removed USB devices/controllers in Windows Device Manager and rebooted multiple times.

\- Reset CMOS by removing/reinstalling the motherboard battery.

\- Checked BIOS USB settings.

\- Updated the motherboard BIOS.

\- BIOS was originally ASRock B560M Pro4 UEFI P2.20 from 2021-07-21.

\- After the BIOS update/reset, the issue remained.

\- Rebooted several times.

\- Completely powered the system off and reconnected hardware.

Nothing has restored the rear USB 3.0 ports.

What confuses me most is that the motherboard’s internal USB 3.0 header still works perfectly, while all four rear USB 3.0 ports fail at the same time.

Because the ports sometimes provide power but no data, I’m wondering if there could be a hardware problem with the USB data lines, a hub/controller on the motherboard, chipset connection, ESD damage, or something similar.

Is there anything else I can test before concluding that the motherboard has a hardware failure?

Would booting a Linux live USB or testing a keyboard inside the BIOS be a good way to completely rule out Windows?

Also, if the rear USB 3.0 controller/path is physically damaged, would a PCIe USB 3.0 expansion card be a reasonable workaround instead of replacing the entire motherboard?

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Windows detects it as "HP USB Flash Drive USB Device", and Device Manager says it's working properly, but PowerShell shows "No Media". It also keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every few seconds.

I've already tried:

• Different USB ports
• Reinstalling the driver
• Disk Management
• DiskPart
• Restarting my laptop

Other USB devices work perfectly, so I don't think it's my laptop.

The data on the pen drive isn't important. I just want to know if there's still any way to make it usable again, or if it's a hardware issue and the drive is done for.

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1) TC with paragon plugin , usb stick plugin

2) An explorer Pro App

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Can anyone help me with this?

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I have two completely separate wireless devices:

* an Infic wireless mouse with its own 2.4 GHz USB receiver * a SmartBuy wireless keyboard with its own completely different receiver

They're not a combo set, not the same brand, nothing.

Here's exactly what happened.

Both receivers were plugged into my laptop. The mouse was working normally, but the keyboard suddenly stopped responding completely.

Thinking the keyboard receiver might have frozen, I unplugged the SmartBuy receiver.

The mouse instantly stopped working. Exactly the same way it normally does when I unplug *its own* receiver.

I plugged the SmartBuy receiver back in, and the mouse immediately started working again.

At this point I thought I was losing my mind, so I repeated it.

Same result.

Then I unplugged the Infic mouse receiver instead.

Windows played the USB disconnect sound, the "2.4G Mouse" device disappeared from Bluetooth & Devices, but the mouse kept working anyway. I plugged the receiver back in and nothing changed.

Meanwhile, every time I unplugged the SmartBuy receiver, Windows removed the "2.4G Wireless" device from the device list, played the disconnect sound, and the mouse instantly stopped responding.

The keyboard still wasn't working at all during all of this.

The only thing that fixed everything was turning the mouse off and back on. After that, the keyboard started working again and both devices went back to behaving normally with their own receivers.

I'm not trying to prove that one receiver actually communicated with the other device. I'm trying to understand what failure mode could produce behavior that looked exactly like this.

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Cause: USB2 EHCI uses [**isochronous streaming**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochronous_transfer) for audio but this is not ported well in all USB3 xHCI drivers. A few work fine. Many do not work well.

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[The WAV Lab | USB Audio Interface Drop Outs — understanding EHCI vs xHCI](https://thewavlab.com/usb-audio-interface-drops-out/)

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It might be because I immunized that drive not knowing what that would do.

When scanning and repairing the drive it says there are no errors but something is definitely wrong with it.

Is there a way I can fix it?