FAT32 AND EXFAT

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Poolzer
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FAT32 AND EXFAT

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My new Toyota 4runner has a usb input and thumb drives work great in it.

I picked up a 250 seagate mini drive that is powered by usb, same amp, same volts but the car wont recognize it.

Reading through the manual, it says it has to be in either fat16 or fat32.

Windows these days only writes in exfat from what I can see, at least with this drive.

Did some wiki reading and it said that a drive has to be under 140gb to be written in fat32. I partitioned it down to even under 100gb and still couldnt get it to fat32.

Any advice?
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Re: FAT32 AND EXFAT

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try reformatting the drive on a mac. Windows only has 2 options and macs have numerous. Just keep trying till you get it right and of course, back up all data before formatting
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Re: FAT32 AND EXFAT

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I truly dont know anyone in my area that owns a mac, will have to ask around at work.

The drive has nothing on it, so thats not going to be an issue.
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Re: FAT32 AND EXFAT

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Hello you could try a program called Fat32Formatter 1.0. I hope this will work.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_ ... amid=38041
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Re: FAT32 AND EXFAT

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I grabbed it and it worked!

Was able to put 200gb on it and works perfectly in the 4runner!

You da man!
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Re: FAT32 AND EXFAT

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Any time man !! Glad I could help you.
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