FAT is still used in drives expected to be used by multiple operating systems, such as in shared Windows, Linux and DOS environments. Microsoft Windows additionally comes with a pre-installed tool to convert a FAT file system into NTFS directly without the need to rewrite all files, though this cannot be reversed easily.[11] The FAT file system is used in removable media such as floppy disks, super-floppies, memory and flash memory cards or USB flash drives. FAT is supported by portable devices such as PDAs, digital cameras, camcorders, media players, and mobile phones.[3]
Info Geek: Why Are Removable Drives Still Using FAT32 Instead of NTFS
Thanks for the reply, Klassikfreund. I'll translate (using Google) because my German isn't good enough anymore: "Copying to a USB stick fails on the Fat32 formatting. You should format the stick in NTFS format. Prospectum is currently redesigning its website, but should be accessible via e-mail. Zöblitz is unreservedly recommended!" You've given me some insights here - thanks. I will need a seperate USB Drive for the 'problem files' that can't be transferred (thinking that burning them on a CD disk might be easier. Here's an article about FAT32 vs NTFS that will help others: -explains-why-are-removable-drives-still-using-fat32-instead-of-ntfs/ Re Prospectum - I did email them using the website front placeholder's info - no reply at all. Jack
Some things, such as Flash Drives and external drives may not work on some computers if formatted as NTFS and then plugging into a FAT32 computer, and more and more, even devices like DVD players, such as the great one all of us GeekDroppers love, and televisons. FAT32 however can still work on NTFS computers. Most computers these days are Windows XP (using NTFS) or higher, so generally you're safe using NTFS, however you should be aware if this limitation anyway.
One of my external drives decided was not going to show up on my Mac. It would not mount. I tried every thing in this article spending hours trying to get it to mount. It just could not be found by disk utility or or the terminal. You could see it but it just would not respond. Till I got to the bottom of the article it was suggesting I recover the info on the drive using a software called Stellar Data Recovery. Once I downloaded this (free version) and started to run it low and behold I noticed that my drive showed up on the desktop. I could even open it up the and see all my files. I had about 6 Photo libraries some from iPhoto years ago. And I had folders with 1000s of photos I did not want to loose. This was the only thing that worked to get my drive back. My mistake was disconnecting usb cables to move some things around without first ejecting the drive. This did not effect my other drives but just this certain one. My suggestion to everyone is to remember to eject before pulling the usb connectors off the computer.
Added info by a different user Aug 2012: All games show up in usb gx but I can only ever get 4 games to work, in Wii flow I can only ever see 4 games, even if there are supposed to be 10 games on it, same thing in cfg Usb loader.....any more than 4 games and it will just keep resetting back to wii menu after you select any game transferred to it after the first 4, I have tried many things, fat32, ntfs, wbfs drive, reformatting several times and still it will just not read more than 4 games, I know the games work fine as I just finished loading them, about 15 game onto a western digital my book essentials and they work perfectly, Don't buy this, works fine for pc/windows, but for the wii it has some serious issues, if anyone knows how to fix them please post. 2ff7e9595c
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