Windows 10 Choosing the Right File System for Pen Drives: FAT32 vs. exFAT

nmsuk

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• Feb 28, 2019

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depends on the capacity of the drive.

 

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Neemobeer

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fat32 and exfat are fairly similar for compatibly use exfat.

 

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ussnorway

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yes I would go exfat if you want to jump from Windows to some other system... just be aware of the size limits and stay under 2g

 

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nmsuk

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exfat does large volumes greater than 2gb, I have my 64gb formatted to it for my windows installs

 

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Thank you all-good thing for alerts as I never got an email. better check my settings.

 

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Joey1394

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I dual-boot between Windows-10 and a Linux OS. So I don't use exFAT, because Linux doesn't support it. It comes with restrictive license which doesn't allow open-source operating system to implement it natively.

Linux has no problems with NTFS, so I format my usb-sticks with it.

 

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