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Sandisk formatter tool5/28/2023 When I went to the venue with 2x CDJ2000NXS setup, I was surprised to notice the Extreme Pro said 'FORMAT DRIVE' on both players. All of them were formatted in FAT32 and (successfully) tested on my RX2 at home. The truth is that FAT32 has a theoretical volume size limit of 16 TB, with a current practical limit of about 8 TB-plenty for most USB drives. I have purchased a Sandisk Extreme Pro 256GB 3.2 recently and 2 Sandisk Ultra Flair 128GB 3.0 drives some years ago. Specifications put out by manufacturers on file systems as they pertain to drive size created the myth that FAT32 can only be used to format drives between 2 GB and 32 GB, and that is likely why native tools on Windows-and other systems-have that limit. Every major operating system and most devices support it, making it great for drives you need to access from different systems. The advantage to using FAT32 is portability. If you do need those larger file sizes, you’ll need to stick with something like NTFS or exFAT. RELATED: What File System Should I Use for My USB Drive?įAT32 is a solid file system for external drives, so long as you don’t plan to use files over 4GB in size. To quickly format a USB flash drive with File Explorer on Windows 11, use these steps: Open File Explorer. USB Flash Drives All USB Flash Drives borya450 January 5, 2017, 2:16pm 1. Swap "X:" for the drive letter assigned to your USB drive.įor whatever reason, the option to format USB drives larger than 32GB with the FAT32 file system isn’t present in the regular Windows format tool. Formatting Sandisk Extreme Pro usb 3.0 flash drive. Alternatively, launch PowerShell as an Administrator and run "format /FS:FAT32 X:" in the Window to format the "X:" drive as FAT32. Use a third-party utility, like "FAT32 Format," to format larger USB drives with FAT32. This boot creation software does include the fat32format utility to help you format drives larger than 32GB as Fat32.
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