Download and run the fat32 tool from here:.If there’s anything important on the drive BACK UP before continuing. This is necessary to change the format or increase the size beyond the 32 GB limit.
PLEASE NOTE: this process will erase all the contents on the drive. Highly recommended, save it to your goodies folder – it’s sure to come to your rescue. This very basic tool will allow you to select your drive and perform a quick format as FAT32, regardless of the drive (or partition) size. Usually these Apple Mac compatible drives would be formatted as FAT32 – allowing the drive to be used in both Windows and Mac systems.Įasy fix? Format it as FAT32 you say? There’s a 32GB limit in Windows for FAT32 – meaning any drive (or partition) larger than 32GB cannot be formatted as FAT32 using their standard formatting tool.įortunately there is an answer – a tool called FAT32 Format. I recently discovered that a brand new USB hard drive promoted as “Apple Mac compatible” was formatted using the NTFS file system.įor the non-technical, this file system was created by Microsoft for their Windows operating system and has limited compatibility on non-Windows devices.
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