“what is the file format? I need a FAT32 how do i know what file format these are?”
Answer This Question
1-5 of 5 Answers
All of my Samsung disks have FAT32 as default. Worst case one would have to perform a format of the card. A bigger concern is will your device recognize the full card capacity.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Anything from 64gb and up will format at exFat but you can find formatter software that can give you the option to use Fat32
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Fat32 is for 32g or less
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.ExFAT32 - That said, you can reformat to FAT32 if you specific device needs it to be at that format
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.A file format is a systematic method, or convention, used to write data to a disk. An analogy would be a human writing down information on a piece of paper; one format would be English text whereas another format would be Russian language in Cyrillic text. Not everyone would be able to understand or decipher the information if, for example, you could not read Cyrillic text or understand Russian then you'd have the human equivalent of an "unsupported/unreadable disk error". The good thing about FAT32 is that it is not proprietary or exclusive to Apple or Microsoft and can be read and written to by virtually any computer or device. The downside with FAT32 is the file size limitation of about 4GB, which only matters if you are dealing with big files. If you wanted to store files larger than 4GB you would probably want to use exFAT, otherwise FAT32 should work fine for you. You can format disks by connecting it to a computer and using the disk utility program to create volumes, partitions and decide what format to use.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.