Comments on: How-to format a disk to FAT32 /2009/04/23/how-to-format-a-disk-to-fat32 Cars, Computers, and trying new things Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:15:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cemore /2009/04/23/how-to-format-a-disk-to-fat32/comment-page-1#comment-12070 Cemore Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:40:03 +0000 /?p=829#comment-12070 This whole hard dreive stuff has me bugged! I have a DVD player in my truck and I recently purchased a 1T iomega hard drive cuz I was being a dj in the bar that I owned. I'm out of the bar business now and I have all this music that I wanted to listen to in my truck, but I kept getting un readable file so I called Pioneer to see wat was up and it turns out that my head unit doesn't support ntfs just fat32. I'm not much of a guru when it comes to computers, so I'm asking anyone to simply step by step help me through wat I need to do so I have lots of music for my enjoyment while in my truck. Much like Larry T mentioned. That is the exact portion of this thread that I'm faced with. Thanks for anyone trying to help me out! Cemore This whole hard dreive stuff has me bugged! I have a DVD player in my truck and I recently purchased
a 1T iomega hard drive cuz I was being a dj in the bar that I owned. I’m out of the bar business now and
I have all this music that I wanted to listen to in my truck, but I kept getting un readable file so I called Pioneer
to see wat was up and it turns out that my head unit doesn’t support ntfs just fat32. I’m not much of a guru when it comes to computers, so I’m asking anyone to simply step by step help me through wat I need to do so I have lots of music for my enjoyment while in my truck. Much like Larry T mentioned. That is the exact portion of this thread that I’m faced with. Thanks for anyone trying to help me out!
Cemore

]]> By: Larry T /2009/04/23/how-to-format-a-disk-to-fat32/comment-page-1#comment-12038 Larry T Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:59:06 +0000 /?p=829#comment-12038 Another good reason which I have encountered is that all newer car stereos with USB inputs will only accept FAT32 file systems. If you want to use an external hard drive in your car (like I do) it needs to be FAT32. Probably because the manufacturers didn't expect people would be wanting to use hard drives in their cars, just USB thumb drives, etc. Another good reason which I have encountered is that all newer car stereos with USB inputs will only accept FAT32 file systems. If you want to use an external hard drive in your car (like I do) it needs to be FAT32. Probably because the manufacturers didn’t expect people would be wanting to use hard drives in their cars, just USB thumb drives, etc.

]]> By: Rothgar /2009/04/23/how-to-format-a-disk-to-fat32/comment-page-1#comment-11593 Rothgar Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:58:42 +0000 /?p=829#comment-11593 One downside of using Windows 98 as recommended is, from what I found, Windows 98 doesn't support SATA or USB 2.0. So your format times will be painstakingly slow. Especially if you are using something more than even 200 GB. And the only reasons I see using FAT32 as a good option is if you go between OS's that cannot right to NTFS *cough*OSX*cough* or can't read/write to ext3/4 without extensions *cough*Windows*cough*. I haven't had a chance to try out exFAT which is supposed to get rid of the FAT32 file size limits, but I guess you may still have a problem if OSX doesn't support it. One downside of using Windows 98 as recommended is, from what I found, Windows 98 doesn’t support SATA or USB 2.0. So your format times will be painstakingly slow. Especially if you are using something more than even 200 GB.
And the only reasons I see using FAT32 as a good option is if you go between OS’s that cannot right to NTFS *cough*OSX*cough* or can’t read/write to ext3/4 without extensions *cough*Windows*cough*. I haven’t had a chance to try out exFAT which is supposed to get rid of the FAT32 file size limits, but I guess you may still have a problem if OSX doesn’t support it.

]]> By: Krunk /2009/04/23/how-to-format-a-disk-to-fat32/comment-page-1#comment-11592 Krunk Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:27:56 +0000 /?p=829#comment-11592 I'm surprised that Windows doesn't allow you to format a hdd over 32GB in FAT32, but you are right: <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463" rel="nofollow">Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP</a>. Funny thing is that they recommend that you boot into Win98 if you want to format a drive that's more than 32GB to FAT32. But there are good reasons to avoid FAT32 on modern OSes, security being one of the biggest reason. Another big reason is the max file size per file is 4GB for FAT32, while the max file size per file is 16TB on NTFS. I’m surprised that Windows doesn’t allow you to format a hdd over 32GB in FAT32, but you are right: Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP. Funny thing is that they recommend that you boot into Win98 if you want to format a drive that’s more than 32GB to FAT32.

But there are good reasons to avoid FAT32 on modern OSes, security being one of the biggest reason. Another big reason is the max file size per file is 4GB for FAT32, while the max file size per file is 16TB on NTFS.

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