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Converting or formatting a USB flash drive to fat32

Anonymous
2023-01-01T03:45:45+00:00

I either need to reformat or convert a flash drive to fat32. I have read numerous articles and most say go to accessories-system tools-disk converter but there is no disk converter is system tools. I also read an article that says to go to a command prompt and type format X: /fat32 where X is the drive letter but that says invalid parameter. Another article says to do to disk management and right click the drive and format and select fat32 but fat32 is not a choice. It used to be easy as you could just tight click the drive in file explorer and select format and select fat32 but for some reason it is no longer a choice.

I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to format my flash drive to fat32 I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T15:20:32+00:00

    The drive is a 64gb and want to use it for external storage on an Amazon Fire TV Stick. According to Amazon you can use a drive up to 128 gb. The Fire Stick did not recognize the flash drive so checked the format and found it needed to be fat32 so tried formatting it to fat 32. When I couldn’t get it to format to fat32 i went through some of my flash drives and found a 32gb and it was already fat32 and the Firestick sees it with no problem so I have no idea how the Firestick will use a 128gb drive if it only recognizes fat 32 drives and the maximum size of a fat 32 drive is 32gb.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-01T21:31:27+00:00

    This time after formatting I received an error saying

    Virtual Disk Service error:

    The volume size is too big.

    I tried it a second time with the same error.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-01T18:46:47+00:00

    Kindly try below method

    type the command "format fs=fat32", and press Enter to format the USB flash drive to FAT32 format., then exit diskpart assign drive letter using disk management tool in windows

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-01T18:41:20+00:00

    Well everything seemed to go as it should but as soon as I assigned a drive letter a window popped up and said the drive needed to be formatted, so will go through the procedure again. All commands completed properly so not sure why assigning the drive letter seems to have affected it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T06:16:18+00:00

    What is the size of the flash drive?

    What problems are you having with the flash drive and what would you like to do with the flash drive?

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