Is the 16nGB drive formatted to FAT 32? null

Most smaller drives come as FAT32 in the package. These come as FAT32 as it's only 16 gb, my 128 gb flash drive came as exFAT. Currently, large usb drives may arrive with exFAT which is a fairly new format which some older devices may not be able to handle but that doesn't mean the usb drive is incompatible, it just means you have to reformat it before it will work. The important thing is you should be able to reformat any usb drive to FAT32, NTFS, or even exFAT from your desktop, laptop or even a tablet depending on the OS on it. In the case of my Sony Android TV I had to reformat that 128 gb to NTFS before it could read anything off it (apparently 4k capable flat panel TV's want NTFS on big usb drives that get plugged into them). Don't give up on it right away if it won't work in your device, try reformatting it...a caveat if you get one of those usb drives that advertises that it has security measures on it...you may not be able to reformat one of those yourself because of that security garbage that's on it. The difference in the formats manifests as read/write speed as the drive fills up, exFAT is found on bigger drives because it's faster when the drive is getting close to capacity.

You can format most flash drives if not all to Fat 32....Diskpart do a great job.... I am a Windows OS man...

I think these come formatted to NTFS anymore. Fat32 isn't really meant for anything bigger than 4gb. It can't address the numbering in the file system. However, there are some that will use an old LBA style of splitting a file allocation table into several sections, each locating the entirety of a different section of the disk; it was built for HDD mechanical hard disks, and Windows uses this to format fat32, but if you have home version, it will only show 4gb drive partitions, splitting the drive into several sections. Pro and Pro for workstations will allow you to format as fat32 also, but will use LBA extension to format everything. If you need FAT32 Look up GUIFORMAT online. It's a freeware application for Windows, and it will use an EXTENDED FAT overlay system to format the entire drive as "FAT32", essentially faking any device that uses it into seeing it as FAT32, with a single file table (faster access), and it will function normally with the full space so long as the device you plug it into can handle that space.

The default formatting is FAT 32. Since I use them in my car stereo I usually don't format for anything else with these drives but the choices are there to format in NTFS and exFAT so I think you could probably use them if needed!

Yes, these drives come pre-formatted as FAT32 for a total free space as 14.4 GB. You can reformat them on a computer to any other file system if you need to

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Most smaller drives come as FAT32 in the package. These come as FAT32 as it's only 16 gb, my 128 gb flash drive came as exFAT. Currently, large usb drives may arrive with exFAT which is a fairly new format which some older devices may not be able to handle but that doesn't mean the usb drive is incompatible, it just means you have to reformat it before it will work. The important thing is you should be able to reformat any usb drive to FAT32, NTFS, or even exFAT from your desktop, laptop or even a tablet depending on the OS on it. In the case of my Sony Android TV I had to reformat that 128 gb to NTFS before it could read anything off it (apparently 4k capable flat panel TV's want NTFS on big usb drives that get plugged into them). Don't give up on it right away if it won't work in your device, try reformatting it...a caveat if you get one of those usb drives that advertises that it has security measures on it...you may not be able to reformat one of those yourself because of that security garbage that's on it. The difference in the formats manifests as read/write speed as the drive fills up, exFAT is found on bigger drives because it's faster when the drive is getting close to capacity.
Answered by suem 3 years ago
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You can format most flash drives if not all to Fat 32....Diskpart do a great job.... I am a Windows OS man...
Answered by SOCAMAN 3 years ago
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I think these come formatted to NTFS anymore. Fat32 isn't really meant for anything bigger than 4gb. It can't address the numbering in the file system. However, there are some that will use an old LBA style of splitting a file allocation table into several sections, each locating the entirety of a different section of the disk; it was built for HDD mechanical hard disks, and Windows uses this to format fat32, but if you have home version, it will only show 4gb drive partitions, splitting the drive into several sections. Pro and Pro for workstations will allow you to format as fat32 also, but will use LBA extension to format everything. If you need FAT32 Look up GUIFORMAT online. It's a freeware application for Windows, and it will use an EXTENDED FAT overlay system to format the entire drive as "FAT32", essentially faking any device that uses it into seeing it as FAT32, with a single file table (faster access), and it will function normally with the full space so long as the device you plug it into can handle that space.
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As far as I know
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Yes
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Answered by 420dude 4 years ago
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The default formatting is FAT 32. Since I use them in my car stereo I usually don't format for anything else with these drives but the choices are there to format in NTFS and exFAT so I think you could probably use them if needed!
Answered by Robert116 4 years ago
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Yes, these drives come pre-formatted as FAT32 for a total free space as 14.4 GB. You can reformat them on a computer to any other file system if you need to
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