Flash drives for head units

[West]

Well I learned today that my P99RS only works with flash drives that are FAT32 or FAT16. Largest flash drive I can use is 32gb.

I purchased a 64gb drive which can only do exFat or NTFS.

So much for having all my music in one place...

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[IonRL205 10+ year member]

You should be able to format it to fat32

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

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[West]

You should be able to format it to fat32

There no option to do it in windows... Also I believe fat32 max storage space is 32gb.

 

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You should be able to format it to fat32

There no option to do it in windows... Also I believe fat32 max storage space is 32gb.

 

[dragon.breath 10+ year member]

i formatted a 64gb stick with fat32 file encoding for a work project awhile back. i never tried to use it for music though. here is the program i used.

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - CNET Download.com

 

[realdragonluv 10+ year member]

You can also use a program called fat32format, Google search for fat32format.zip and you should find it. The theoretical limit of fat32 is 8TB according to Microsoft:

"The maximum disk size is approximately 8 terabytes when you take into account the following variables: The maximum possible number of clusters on a FAT32 volume is 268,435,445, and there is a maximum of 32 KB per cluster, along with the space required for the file allocation table (FAT)."

The program mentions above needs to be run from a DOS commend prompt but is very quick compared to the HP tool.

I have formatted my 2TB usb external drive as fat32. The 32GB limit is a limit imposed by the OS not the fat32 format

 

[West]

Price of said flash drive shipped to 48067? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

Centon DataStick DSP64GB-001 Pro USB Flash Drive - 64GB, USB 2.0, Grey at TigerDirect.com

You can buy it from there.