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Thanks for all of the replies.
Somehow. after more fiddling, the card eventually ended up in a state where it was showing a lot of bad sectors. I resolved that by using an official SanDisk formatting tool and it works fine now.
Thanks for all of the replies.
Somehow. after more fiddling, the card eventually ended up in a state where it was showing a lot of bad sectors. I resolved that by using an official SanDisk formatting tool and it works fine now.
Hi,
If op was using an apple product he might of said so.
Hi,
Nope I was saying fat32 is a format that is compatible with windows and apple
Besides that fat32 also allows many partitions to be created which is pretty silly for a sd card
It also allows bitlocker to encrypt the sd card which also is a silly thing for a end user to want happen on a device like this.
So ntfs and mbr format is just fine.
Correct, it's a Windows issue. I use GPARTED that installed with my Linux Mint or GPARTED's bootable LiveCD to do it. The main reason to use exFAT is with single files larger than 4GB, haven't checked if a computer can boot to an exFAT drive yet. I carry a lot of files on a 64GB thumb drive formatted FAT32 [that way from the factory] but also have another as exFAT in the case of needing to save a large file.
No, but the OS/Operating System has to know. There's limitations such as FAT32 can't store a file larger than 4GB, Windows can't create or format a drive or partition larger than 32GB as FAT32, some OSes such as MAC OS X/macOS can't natively fully use NTFS but exFAT can be. A lot depends upon the need for cross-platform use of the drives. Older OSes have different limitations but most are no longer used. Windows may be the most prevalent OS but it is not the only solution in some situations, users just need to be open to ways to accomplish a task.