bigsexydoug Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 ive followed lots of leads on the web but am getting nowhere, all i want to do is convert it, so i can add bigger than 4gb files. im running xp (sp3) would it be easier to use a friends windows 7 or vista ? as this is driving me nuts . when i try to format it as ntfs it basically goes in to a state of raw and its all full. . so to get it back working agai n i have to format it back to fat32. hope some one can help me on this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngen Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 what size is the stick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsexydoug Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 32gb sandisk cruzer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 assuming windows 7 start menu - right click "computer" manage - disk management there you can see all your installed disks. you can see the active partitions. You find your stick, delete the fat32 partition and replace it with an NTFS one then reformat and bobs your uncle. Of course you will loose any data on the stick.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampster Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 umm dunno if you've tried this already... Where u: = usb stick open cmd prompt try >convert u: /fs:ntfs or if that doesn't work >format u: /fs:ntfs <-- will wipe everything though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsexydoug Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 thanks guys, needed a special update to allow it,took me 2 days to find it. although im now running in exfat mode now its got tid of the 4gb file size limit. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 You could have used this: http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/ That way it will allow the USB stick to be read in many more devices. I use this to format my 2Tb drive for my XBOX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsexydoug Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 You could have used this: http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/ That way it will allow the USB stick to be read in many more devices. I use this to format my 2Tb drive for my XBOX. formatting isnt the issue, its converting it to ntfs from fat 32, it turns out exfat isnt supported, so im still stuck, does anyone know a shop or person who could format it for me , hopefully sunday but if not monday ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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