Formatting Flash Drive

[SVPSkins]

Can do you format a 64Gb flash drive to Fat 32?

 

[Imari]

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Just try it and see. It would take less time than making this post.

 

[Grayfox]

You will need a third party program to format it, Windows doesnt want to format any drive larger than 32GB as FAT32
You will need this http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.html tool to do it.

Then you will have a 59.6GiB drive FAT32 formatted drive.

 

[SVPSkins]

You will need a third party program to format it, Windows doesnt want to format any drive larger than 32GB as FAT32
You will need this http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.html tool to do it.

Then you will have a 59.6GiB drive FAT32 formatted drive.

thank you

 

[Sanji Himura]

Actually, any Windows from Vista on up don't like formatting into FAT32 at all, to the point where they don't even give you the option to format your flash disk into the format. What they use instead is eFAT, or NFST, a proprietary file format for Windows, which will not be picked up by the Playstation 3 (Since I have a nagging feeling that is where the drive is headed). Trust me, I tried both formats.

The only way to get around this is the program that @Grayfox suggested. It doesn't matter if the drive is 33GiB or 160GB, it will format to FAT32 with little issue.

 

[Grayfox]

Actually, any Windows from Vista on up don't like formatting into FAT32 at all, to the point where they don't even give you the option to format your flash disk into the format. What they use instead is eFAT, or NFST, a proprietary file format for Windows, which will not be picked up by the Playstation 3 (Since I have a nagging feeling that is where the drive is headed). Trust me, I tried both formats.

The only way to get around this is the program that @Grayfox suggested. It doesn't matter if the drive is 33GiB or 160GB, it will format to FAT32 with little issue.

Windows will format a drive that is smaller than 32GB with FAT32 as you can see with my 8GB(7.21GiB) Flash drive

And just for giggles, Windows can even format things with FAT16 which has a 4GB max supported limit

Heck, Windows can format in UDF as well if you know how to do it and if one were to install file system drivers you can even format in that file system(eg ExFat came out after XP, but KB955704 update added support to XP)

 

[SVPSkins]

Actually, any Windows from Vista on up don't like formatting into FAT32 at all, to the point where they don't even give you the option to format your flash disk into the format. What they use instead is eFAT, or NFST, a proprietary file format for Windows, which will not be picked up by the Playstation 3 (Since I have a nagging feeling that is where the drive is headed). Trust me, I tried both formats.

The only way to get around this is the program that @Grayfox suggested. It doesn't matter if the drive is 33GiB or 160GB, it will format to FAT32 with little issue.

yeah thats exactly what i was trying to do with my NTFS external hard drive. annoying becuase ive got a hard drive free and cant use it with out changing it. so bought a small 100GB Fat32 hard drive thing that has the PS3 in mind

 

[BobK]

Another option to consider is the"official" SD card formatter from the SD Association. Works on USB sticks too, IIRC.

 

[SVPSkins]

thanks