Hope this is in the right forum. Apologies if it is not.
Because a flash drive is formatted in FAT, does this mean that data can only be written to it in 4 gb or less partitions. eg: a 32 gb flash drive would have to have 7 or 8 partitions on it of 4gb or less instead of one lot of data, say 12 gb, then another 17 gb etc? If so, does it actually have to be partitioned as does an HDD drive?
The reason I ask is I saved a folder of 14 gb to a 16 gb flash drive, but when I accessed it again, most of the data wasn't there. Hope this makes sense.
Thanks for reading and in advance for any help offered.
hedley
Hi Hedley, There's nothing to stop you formatting it as NTFS…… they often come formatted as FAT32 so they are compatible with differing operating systems…but if you are operating XP or Vista or 7 or 8 than it will work just fine….
Regards
paws
Because a flash drive is formatted in FAT, does this mean that data can only be written to it in 4 gb or less partitions. eg: a 32 gb flash drive would have to have 7 or 8 partitions on it of 4gb or less instead of one lot of data,
the answer to that is no.
yes you can have 1 partition of 32GB using the fat32 filesystem.
if all your data wasn't on the drive i'd guess you removed it before the copying process was completed.
The maximum disk size is approximately 8 terabytes when you take into account the following variables: The maximum possible number of clusters on a FAT32 volume is 268,435,445, and there is a maximum of 32 KB per cluster, along with the space required for the file allocation table (FAT).
You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup. If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it. Another option is to start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format tool included on the disk.
