Amid the widespread shift to subscription-based cloud storage solutions, relying on good-old physical drives can be a reassuring sense of independence. Whether you're trying to repurpose an old hard ...

When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...

You can format your HDD, SSD, Memory Card, etc., using these free file system management tools or FAT32 format tools. Windows File Explorer is the default option you can use to format a drive in FAT32 ...

In this post, we will show you how to format USB to FAT32 on a Windows 11/10 PC. FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32) is a file system format for storage devices such as USB flash drives, memory cards, ...

When you have a new hard drive, or when you're reinstalling Windows, the OS may ask you to format the drive. If given a choice, the two common modes are NTFS and FAT32. But what are those, and why ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

Microsoft is lifting a decades-old restriction on Windows that capped FAT32 disk formatting at 32GB. Instead, FAT32 formatting on Windows 11 will support partitions up to 2TB in size. The company is ...

I'm trying (key word, trying) to convert a friends 3tb WD My Book to FAT32 so he can store, and play all his AVI movies, etc. I'm using Acronis Disc Doctor, without much success. This is the ID info I ...

Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a new preview version of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders, and it holds an interesting change: the max size limit on FAT32 partitions is being bumped up to 2TB. FAT32 is a ...