Windows won’t even let you format them in fat32 anymore!
Which sucks when the device you plan to use it for TECHNICALLY supports exfat, but there’s lots of community posts about how the drivers for exfat regularly corrupt the drive if it tries to read/write too much…
Yeah, I use a lot of legacy gear for work. They type of shit that is running Windows 98 embedded. Fat32 will never die as long as legacy support is a thing. If I plug an exFAT drive into one of those machines, it won’t even recognize the drive.
Yes, it does. It’s usually for OS updates/installation sticks or configuration files for stuff like switches, meeting bars, conference phones, etc… and not for data transfer.
Windows won’t even let you format them in fat32 anymore! Which sucks when the device you plan to use it for TECHNICALLY supports exfat, but there’s lots of community posts about how the drivers for exfat regularly corrupt the drive if it tries to read/write too much…
What? That just means it will corrupt files on fat32 too but not the whole filesystem so you didn’t notice. Return that shit.
Yeah, I use a lot of legacy gear for work. They type of shit that is running Windows 98 embedded. Fat32 will never die as long as legacy support is a thing. If I plug an exFAT drive into one of those machines, it won’t even recognize the drive.
I yearn for stuff as new as win98 embedded…I still have to work with PLCs that use UV-erasable eeprom to store the progam.
Oh man flashbacks to those, I remember they were considered antiquated when I was first getting into PCs 20+ years ago 🫠
There exists a modern EPROM replacement that internally uses flash and the chip itself has a USB port on it, but I can’t remember the name.
I regularly format usb drives to fat32 with windows. You just need to use diskpart.
Doesn’t that limit you to 32GB partition sizes for fat32?
Yes, it does. It’s usually for OS updates/installation sticks or configuration files for stuff like switches, meeting bars, conference phones, etc… and not for data transfer.