Windows 10: Why do my video files turn to 0 bytes after i copy it to my usb drive?

Hello, I want to transfer some video files to a usb with 2tb. when i copy the video, it seems alright but it has a common speed of 10mb/s. And when it is done, somehow it says that it is unsupported or corrupt. its supposed to have a thumbnail, but its just the normal video player thumbnail with its logo on it on a paper. Help me please :[

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NTFS problem: 0 byte file but "Size On Disk: 3.98 GB"

By using a Python script, I managed to mistakenly create a 4GB file on an NTFS USB drive with a colon in the filename. The resulting file name was all of the text up until the colon, but the file is listed as being 0 bytes. BUT when I check the file properties
it says "Size On Disk: 3.98 GB (4,282,056,704 bytes)". When I used a file recovery program such as Recuva and MiniTool Power Data Recovery, all 4GB seem to copy to another drive, but it still shows that it's 0 bytes (Size On Disk 3.98 GB).

Any advice as to what I could try next to fix this issue?

The file cannot be replaced easily so I'd like to get it back.

I'm not averse to low level disk editing if it comes to that.

Thanks in advance!

 

Small files have a disk space of 0 bytes

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CAUTION: Please to not ask/suggest "file repair" stuff as in the original question since it will lead to no output/solution/answer!

The files are valid/okay. In my point of view there are two possibilities:

• Simply a "display" bug in Windows File Explorer for files <1K
  
• Some specialty of the NTFS I do not know (see also for "file system tunneling - possible that files are changed, before they are created")
  

e.g. A text file which is 72 byte:





But "Size on disk" claiming 0 bytes...

When I add (enough) text to the (text) file it changes from "0 bytes" to 4K:





When I remove the added text, "4,00 KB (4 096 bytes) will remain...

When I create then a copy of that file, the new file has again "0 bytes" on disk (don't forget, the file has 72 bytes)...

Info: Disk sector - Wikipedia

(so, the sector size on my HDD is 4 KB.... or KiB but each "IT human" knows about the 1024 factor so it is clear what KB means... - an it seems that Microsoft shares my opinion since the avoid the kibibyte nonsense ;-))

Would be nice to know the background if it. Many thanks to everybody, doing clarification on that, in advance!

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When I try to delete a file from USB it show 0 byte size of that file

I have a problem with my computer, and USB.

• When I try to delete any file from USB drive, it show 0 byte size.
  
• The actual is not 0 byte.
  
• That pen-drive (USB disk) works perfectly in another computer, but when I try to delete then it will show 0 byte size.
  

Yesterday I plugged in a new Sandisk pen-drive, after this some auto install starts, I cancelled it and formatted that drive, and restarted system, but now when I try to delete any file from any USB than it will show 0 byte size.

I am using Windows 10, and this issue happens with any USB drive.