[SOLVED] USB Stick and FAT32

[michman]

I have a project that requires a USB stick to be formatted in FAT32. Sticks that I have recently purchased are formatted as exFAT by default. When I use the Windows format option it doesn't show FAT32 as a choice. Question is, are exFAT and FAT32 the same? If not how do I format them as FAT32?

 

[hotaru.hino]

exFAT and FAT32 are not the same.

You can format the thumb drive as FAT32 by opening PowerShell or the Command Prompt and typing in the following: format /FS:FAT32 [Drive], where [Drive] is the drive letter of the thumb drive.

 

[michman]

Thanks I'll give it a try

 

[michman]

exFAT and FAT32 are not the same.

You can format the thumb drive as FAT32 by opening PowerShell or the Command Prompt and typing in the following: format /FS:FAT32 [Drive], where [Drive] is the drive letter of the thumb drive.

Well It did work eventually. I discovered that you need a : after the drive letter. Once I did that it worked fine.