Comments on: exFAT Versus FAT32 Versus NTFS

By: Captain Meatshield

Captain Meatshield — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:35:28 +0000

But only by hunting down and downloading an update.

By: Myrddin

Myrddin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:51:00 +0000

After formatting you're not going to have as much space free, no matter which format you use so, you're probably not going to get that file onto that flash drive if those are your two sizes.

By: scoffer

scoffer — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:21:24 +0000

Not sure if this is directly related to the Vs topic here, but it is the closest I can find so far.

exFAT is a bit odd. I have a 16GB Flash drive. I converted it to 16GB exFAT via Win7. When I tried to copy files (about 4 GB total), I had an error saying that I needed another 300MB, but, the disk had 15.7GB free space. So I converted it to 8GB exFAT.

The Flash Drive will not format to NTFS in XP, Vista nor Win7, and FAT32 is useless.

Can anyone please explain how to make my 15.7GB Flash Drive save a single 15.7GB file using exFAT?

Thank you

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:03:10 +0000

“- Like HPFS,…
- Like HTFS,… “

What are HPFS and HTFS?

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:33:56 +0000

Awesome! I had a 120gb pen drive and converted to ntfs and it stopped working, I'm using the the exfat and had no problem in Vista SP! and in XP I downloaded a file driver and I can use it in XP. No problem. Thanks to this I can use my 120gb pen drive.

How did they format a 120gb pen drive I don't know and it read FAT file system. So I converted it to NTFS and did could not format complete, NOW exFAT I have no porblem.

By: bye

bye — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:12:39 +0000

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By: luquien

luquien — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:31:37 +0000

No such thing. It's exFAT or NTFS. For the Vista operating system drive, stick with NTFS (not sure Vista will even install on exFAT due to lack of security)

One place I can see exFAT coming in handily is on a cache drive for a Windows Media Service Server or IIS7 box where no security, high speed, and almost unlimited number of files, comes in great.

By: A Known Mouse

A Known Mouse — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:44:30 +0000

Windows 7 allows readyboost from exFAT, bigger readyboost :D

By: z0iid

z0iid — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:14:35 +0000

well, supposedly it does, but my girlfriends macbook won't read my external hd that is ntfs formatted. i have to copy stuff to a usb key that uses FAT.

By: z0iid

z0iid — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:09:03 +0000

OS X doesn't read NTFS….