USB cannot be formatted?

Beautiful good day,

I recently purchased a 64GB Intenso USB stick. I'd like to copy my music collection onto the stick and play it on my car stereo. I know from personal experience that my car stereo works best with the FAT32 file system. However, I can only format the stick in exFAT and NTFS using my Windows file manager. Neither of these formats works on my stereo.

How can I format my stick in the FAT32 system?

Thank you

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jerric8
2 years ago

Try the Sick with Fat32format to format. But watch the stick.

jerric8
1 year ago
Reply to  benutzer650

There is EaseUS Partition Master, but this is annoying with the purchase version and you don’t have to download or install it:

https://www.easeus.de/download/partition-manager.html

As an alternative, GParted offers:

https://gparted.org/download.php

there a live USB stick or CD must be created because GParted is based on Linux.

JanMarcel01
2 years ago

Hey,

that is because under Windows a FAT32 partition can be a maximum of 32GB. This can be handled as far as I know, but is not possible via the Windows Explorer.

Mfg Jannick (L1nd)

Dragodraki
1 year ago

Of course you can also take a USB stick with 32GB or larger. You just need to partition it properly. You should do that anyway, because more and more often things are delivered with NTFS – and NTFS is only supported by few car radios.

Windows disk partitioning is only suitable to a limited extent.

Of all the partitioners I used so far, I like “MiniTool Partition Wizard”. There is it permanently free in the free variant (for your purposes everything is sufficient). Not frighten because the program has some more functions – actually it is easy to use. If necessary, reduce the partition (only if necessary) and format your stick in FAT32 or exFAT.

gluebirne795
1 year ago

Windows only allows formatting disks with a maximum of 32 GB as FAT32. To use this file system on a larger disk, you need the following programs:

https://www.heise.de/download/product/fat32formatter-50072

heizfeld
2 years ago

Hi.

download, unpack and copy to system32.

H2format | heise Download

Retrieve Disk Management

create partition on STick and assign drive letters,

NOT Formatting!!

Open Windows+r, start cmd

entry h2format :

STick is finished formatted with FAT32

LG

Harry

Kiboman
2 years ago

Per cmd with fsdisk would have to work smoothly

Kerner
2 years ago

Yes,

then take a stick that has no more than 32GB.

FAT32!

Do you understand?

You get so many songs that you can’t listen to them all.

Hansi

Kiboman
2 years ago
Reply to  Kerner

FAT32 refers to 32bit and limits the maximum size of a file to 4GB the partition limit is officially 2TB