Windows 7 File Systems Supported?

[flibberdipper]

So, as most of us tech-savvy people should know, a lot of flash drives come formatted as FAT32, which can only handle files up to 4GB in size. Now, I have a 5GB file that I need to get on my grandma's Windows 7 computer, but my flash drive (being FAT32) can't hold that big of a file. What file systems are supported by Windows 7 that I might be able to format my flash drive as? I was thinking exFAT, but I'm not entirely sure if Windows 7 can support that.

[Guest]

It can. ExFAT is fully compatible with both Mac/PC, but does have size restrictions. Or, you could try NTFS, which is accessible by both systems, and has no size restrictions.

[flibberdipper]

It can. ExFAT is fully compatible with both Mac/PC, but does have size restrictions. Or, you could try NTFS, which is accessible by both systems, and has no size restrictions.

Cool. Thanks.

[Opcode]

ExFAT is a patented file system by Microsoft. It's designed for this very reason (file exceeding 4 GB). You also could just break the file into two pieces with most modern file packers like WinRAR. Copy it to her machine, and then unpack it. Tho the ExFAT method would be much faster (unless the file is compressible).

[Satlen]

It can. ExFAT is fully compatible with both Mac/PC, but does have size restrictions. Or, you could try NTFS, which is accessible by both systems, and has no size restrictions.

You cannot write to NTFS on a mac but that isnt the problem since he only needs to read it

[Guest]

You cannot write to NTFS on a mac but that isnt the problem since he only needs to read it

Well, not natively

http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html

[Satlen]

Well, not natively

http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html

 

Oh, that is good to know! Thanks ^.^