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Format a Sandisk Extreme 64GB MIcro SD card to FAT32

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2018-05-27T14:52:16+00:00

I have a Sandisk Extreme 64GB Micro SD card and would like to format so that its file system is FAT32 so I can use it in my camera. However, the only options for it to be formatted are exFAT and NTFS.

How can I format it into FAT32?

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  1. Vijay A. Verma 104.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-05-27T15:02:58+00:00

    You will have to use a third party utility to achieve this. You can use AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition - Freeware for this purpose.

    https://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-m...

    There is a guide for formatting SD card - https://www.disk-partition.com/articles/partiti...

    Source - Answer marked in https://answers.microsoft.com/thread/0d47d1ce-5...

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-27T15:00:46+00:00

    Please see the following guide to accomplish this task

    https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/format-...

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  3. DaveM121 869.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2018-05-27T15:15:23+00:00

    Hi Ewan, Windows cannot do that, it will refuse to format any drive over 32GB to FAT32

    Click the link below to download the Free version of AOMEI Partition Assistant

    That will do all the formatting jobs Windows refuses to do. The free version is fully featured:

    https://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-m...

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-05-27T15:03:26+00:00

    I have a Sandisk Extreme 64GB Micro SD card and would like to format so that its file system is FAT32 so I can use it in my camera. However, the only options for it to be formatted are exFAT and NTFS.

    How can I format it into FAT32?

    Why not format it in the camera?

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  5. Virginia M 40,630 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2018-05-27T16:11:57+00:00

    I’ve just done the same by using EaseUS partition manager:

    https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-fr...

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