{"id":874,"date":"2016-07-20T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T17:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=874"},"modified":"2016-07-20T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T17:55:26","slug":"windows-cant-format-fat32-on-a-large-flash-drive-but-android-insists-on-fat32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/07\/20\/windows-cant-format-fat32-on-a-large-flash-drive-but-android-insists-on-fat32\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows can&#8217;t format FAT32 on a large flash drive but Android Insists on FAT32&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just went through some contortions trying to recover one of my 128 GB flash drives. I use these with my Pixel-C android tablet to load files to the device.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that android (at least stock android) only understands FAT32 and windows refuses to format a flash drive of this size with anything by exFAT or NTFS.<\/p>\n<p>After cancelling a format operation on windows (and thus invalidating the format on the drive) I found that the Pixel-C would format it to FAT32 itself. Not sure why the conflict, but it was certainly frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t find an SD card reader that will work with the Pixel-C. I now have a couple with USB-C connectors and then work through an adapter to my older devices. None show up on the Pixel in any way. I&#8217;m not sure whether the device that work have extended driver support (they&#8217;re Samsung devices) or whether the Pixel-C intentionally defeats access to external media readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just went through some contortions trying to recover one of my 128 GB flash drives. I use these with my Pixel-C android tablet to load files to the device. It appears that android (at least stock android) only understands FAT32 and windows refuses to format a flash drive of this size with anything by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/07\/20\/windows-cant-format-fat32-on-a-large-flash-drive-but-android-insists-on-fat32\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows can&#8217;t format FAT32 on a large flash drive but Android Insists on FAT32&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-e6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}