NTFS and FAT32

uberfunk · February 8, 2017

Alrighty, I am trying to get a thumb drive to work in my car. Apparently FAT32 is the only file system it will read. I am running Windows 7 Professional. I used command prompt to format it to FAT32, but now I can't transfer my music to the drive without havging to format it again to exfat or NTFS. Any advice would be great, thanks.

Electronics Wizardy · February 8, 2017

What can you format it like in diskmgmt?

What are permissions like?

ProjectBox153 · February 8, 2017

Sometimes the "format" windows will only give me an option of FAT32. I can only assume it is because of the drive size at that moment (4gb).

demonix00 · February 9, 2017

Formatting a drive to FAT32 shouldn't stop file copying unless the files in question are over 4GB each (I think some people are miss thinking that you wanted to format to drive to something other then FAT32), but it could be as @Electronics Wizardy has said just a permissions problem unless you are trying to copy over a file that is larger then the file size limit for the FAT32 file format system.