Questions tagged [fat32]
FAT32 is a filesystem format that is used on flash drives and older systems. It is the only filesystem that is fully supported by all three major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux).
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Is there a way to convert FAT32 to exFAT without data loss?
Windows' convert command is able to convert FAT filesystems to NTFS non-destructively. Similarly, fstransform is a Linux utility that is capable of doing this - calling it an "in-place" filesystem ...
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How to create a loop device without using mount (without loop.ko)?
I was trying to do the following:
mkdir loop-mount
mount -o loop output loop-mount
The problem is that I don't have loop.ko and can't add it to my machine.
Is there a tool or other way to create a ...
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UEFI bootloader
Issue is that EFI systems only allow you to boot using FAT32. I have to deploy multiple images of Windows 8. My WIM image is larger than 4GB and unable to transfer to a FAT32 partition. I've been ...
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How do I repair/recover "RAW" usb drive partition?
Something happened to one of my USB drives. When I connect it my computer, Windows thinks that it's "RAW", and asks me to format it. But it should be FAT32, and chock full of files.
I looked in ...
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sdcard performance bottleneck
I have loaded my 4 GB FAT32 sdcard almost entirely with mp3 files. Now, I cannot remove none of them because "discovering items" never ends. Even command line tools last forever, including format e:. ...
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RW mounted usb drive regarded read-only by cp
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Can any of you help me with the following, I've got a micro sd card inserted via a usb stick into my Compaq 8510w laptop running the latest Arch Linux (x86_64) release. I have a udev rule that ...
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iPhone Memory Stick Windows Formatting (populating!) Q
SUMMARY: Can format but not populate either a FAT32 or ExFAT 128GB USB memory stick. Copying in files fails when more than 32GB are copied. Can't use NTFS because this stick is designed to work with ...
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How to 'Manually' clear the FAT32 'dirty' bit?
As per the Microsoft FAT32 'specification', FAT32 volumes should have their 'clean' flag (ClnShutBit) cleared when mounted and set when unmounted/ejected.
Indeed, this is the behaviour on Linux & ...
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Windows 10 wants to format FAT32 partition
I've an USB-stick with one FAT32 partition. The files in one specific folder caused Windows 10 to notify me about damaged files, so I plugged that USB-stick in my desktop running Debian Unstable. I ...
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Why does FAT32 only use 28-bits for addressing?
I was reading Why is FAT32 limited to just under 2^28 clusters?
The answer to that question was that 4 bits were reserved "for future use".
What advantage is there in reserving these bits? Surely ...
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Can I convert a partition from FAT to exFAT without losing data?
Is it possible to convert a partition from FAT to exFAT without having to transfer all the data off it and on it again?
Linux tools would be the best, but Windows ones are fine too.
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Command line tool to edit FAT/FAT32 attributes on Mac OS X?
Is there a command line tool to edit the FAT/FAT32 attributes (hidden, system, read-only) on Mac OS X?
The "chflags" command seems to apply specifically to HFS filesystems...
Searching the web turns ...
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How to create a new file/folder in Fat32 USB drive from Mac OSX with netatalk file sharing
I mounted the FAT32 USB drive with the command:
sudo mount -t vfat -o rw,auto,user,fmask=0022,dmask=0000,uid=debian-transmission,gid=debian-transmission /dev/sda1 /media/MEDIA
I see the folder in ...
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Native linux bootable thumb drive with first partition as fat32
I've been trying to do this for quite a while and I feel like I have exhausted my options on it. I want to make a flash drive partitioned similarly to this:
Number Start (sector) End (sector) ...
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How to boot a Windows 98 disk image restored in a larger disk?
Let me explain what I did in detail:
found that the Samsung 1.6GB IDE HDD in a Windows 98 PC (Pentium 200MHz) was failing
detached it and dumped it using gddrescue through a slightly newer PC running;...
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Internal Drive FAT32 Partition
I have a question about making this work but I'm not sure if it's even possible. So I have a home business involving embroidery. And I use my garage as a shop space with my machine and PC that I use ...
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Windows doesn't update after installing Linux as dual boot
I have a windows 10 I installed linux (ubuntu) and boots with grub, I believe the reason windows doesn't update is because it doesn't boot using windows bootloader so it reverts the attempted updates
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How to format a usb flash drive to make it accept files larger 4gb?
What can I do to make a usb flash drive accept files larger 4gb? I noticed that some do not allow storing for single file larger 4gb.
Is it about the format of the pendrive? Instead of FAT32 it should ...
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How long should format /FS:FAT32 take on a 1.5TB drive?
I realize formatting of drives can take a large amount of time, but I haven't formatted a drive in literally "forever" (probably not since Windows XP or Windows 2000).
I have a 1.5TB external HDD (...
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Why does a FAT32 USB3 flash drive work so much slower on Windows 10 than on Linux and MacOS?
I've recently acquired a new USB Flash drive. It's a Kingston DataTraveler 50 which supports USB 3.2 Gen 1, has 110 MB/s reading and 15 MB/s writing speed. It works great with my old USB2-only laptop ...
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Linux USB problems on Ubuntu/Mint
After some updates (4.4.0 kernel, Linux Mint 18) I realized that older USB memory sticks are having troubles while new highspeed USB sticks, e.g. 32GB work well.
Using one of my older USB sticks (...
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Windows says I need to format FAT32 parition
I was recently trying to move some of my files on my USB drive (Kingston DT Elite G2) from NTFS ot FAT32 using a Linux Mint 19 system. What I did was:
make a FAT32 partition
copy some files from the ...
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Move Live USB To a new USB
Ive got a Kali installation on a 8GB Usb and Ive ran out of space, it has 2 partitions, is there away that i could transfer the 8GB usb to a 32GB Usb and all the partitions.
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Windows 10 boot error
I recently created a bootable USB it using Rufus on a Windows 10 laptop in order to install Windows 10 add alongside Ubuntu for a dual boot on my desktop. I created the USB in Fat32 format. My empty ...
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USB thumbdrive reported speed difference between NTFS and FAT32
I found this rather strange. I have a USB 3.0 thumdrive (ADATA UV128/16GB), which when formatted as NTFS, seems to report a much higher writing speed than when formatted as FAT32. For example, I ...
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Windows detects all flash drive file systems as RAW
My computer that's running Windows 7 detects all flash drive file systems as RAW, and thus shows an error message to format them as soon as they're plugged in.
I tested all the flash drives in other ...
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Best way to try to recover FAT32 corrupted usb flash drive
I've got a FAT32 USB flash drive (Not mine; I would never store critical data on a FAT32 flash device!) with evident signs of data corruption:
When viewed in Windows 7:
All or almost all files are ...
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USB Flash Drive shows empty but definitely had non-hidden files
I have this 16 GB USb Flash Drive and I remember storing a lot of data in it. I used this several weeks later on my Windows PC and it fails to show any files on it. None were hidden and even so, my PC ...
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How to preserve directory structure, dates and attributes when copying dir trees in Windows on FATxx volumes?
Is there a tool (sync, backup or copy like) that can do for directory trees on a FATxx partition what an utility like Norton Ghost does for whole volumes?
A tool that, while copying directory trees, ...
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How to format External Western Digital hard disk when all NTFS boot sectors cannot be written to
I want to format my external hard drive which is a Western Digital 500GB, through cmd dos command. But it fails because all NTFS boot sectors are not writable. Here are the commands I gave and what I ...
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FAT32: Unable to use the whole partition size
I recently bought a 8GB USB flash disk. I created a fat32 filesystem (using mkfs.vfat) on the whole drive (/dev/sdb1).
df -h shows approximately 8GB available, but when I try to extract an archive on ...
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How to use xcopy to copy files from a compressed NTFS folder to the root of a FAT32 volume?
I am having problems using XCOPY to copy folders and files from a compressed NTFS folder to the root of a FAT32 volume (actually a USB drive).
This looks like a Windows or Xcopy bug to me. The command ...
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FAT32 file entry accumulation after deletion
I'm working on an embedded system that reads from a FAT32 formatted SD card.
While reading articles about the file system, something came to my mind about what happens to the directory entry when the ...
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Does Windows 10 track which storage devices are connected to it?
Does Windows 10 keep a log or history of USB storage devices that are connected to it? For example, if I connect a USB drive to my Windows 10 computer and access some files on a USB drive with it, is ...
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Same file system but different hardware abstraction confusion
I still don't fully grasp how file systems work deep down.
For example, I have both a hard disk drive and a Flash USB stick connected to my Linux or Windows computer.
I'm presented with options of ...
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Resize filesystem on Windows boot partition using linux
I recently installed Windows and Arch linux on dual boot. I left 512MB of empty space for windows to create the boot partition in, but it only used 100MB. Now I need more space in the boot partition ...
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Weird file on my flash drive?
I was using a FAT32 formatted flashdrive on Ubuntu earlier, and when I booted into Windows 10 (cuz yes, I have a dual-boot setup), there was an extra file on the drive. Here's what it said:
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Why do I get "dirty bit is set" when renaming mounted VeraCrypt volume using fatlabel?
Once mounted using VeraCrypt, I run sudo fatlabel /dev/mapper/tcrypt-**** foo.
$ sudo fatlabel /dev/mapper/tcrypt-**** foo
0x25: Dirty bit is set. Fs was not properly unmounted and some data may be ...
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Did I just nuke my drive while doing a FAT32 to NTFS conversion?
I got a 2TB external HDD which was pre-formatted as FAT32. I had assumed exFat and did not bother to check until I ran into the 4GB limit error and realized it was FAT32.
As a last stop, I ran a ...
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SD card suddenly locked
I have a strange thing going on, and would like to know understand how this works, and how this can happen. I've been struggling a long time with it.
I use an SD card Formatted at FAT32 4096 cluster ...
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Corrupted FAT32 reinterpret file as folder
I am trying to recover data from a corrupted FAT32 filesystem. It was so severely damaged that it reinterpreted some files as folder contents. For instance, instead of a file names "FILE.DOC"...
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Fat32 and NTFS, and bootable USB (Kubuntu)
I have been trying to install Kubuntu on my Acer that has Windows 10 using a bootable USB. When i go into the install page, it informs me what formatting i want to do. I want to know if i should ...
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Error loading EFI module from EFI System Partition
I've create ESP image as follows:
dd if=/dev/zero of=esp.img count=$((0x60000)) bs=1
mkfs.fat esp.img
mount esp.img /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/BOOT
cp bootx64.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT
I've copied the image to ...
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Format a USB disk on PURE FAT32, one partition only, on a Mac
There are other questions on SO about this, but not asking what I want.
I do not want to know how to format an external FAT32 disk from terminal, because this can be done by typing this:
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How to restore FAT Partition
I have a MacBook Pro with 2 physical drives. Let's call them System and Data.
On System, I had 2 partitions, one with macOS and the other with Windows using BootCamp.
While trying to delete the ...
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Can't burn USB image onto a CD/DVD
I made a Windows 8 Recovery USB drive. I wanted to back it as RAW as possible to a DVD, whether or not I could use this DVD as I could the original USB drive. The DVD is just the permanent copy of the ...
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How to format a 2TB SSD to be Win98/DOS bootable in Windows 10 without FORMAT.COM/DISKPART
I have a formatted a 2 terabyte SSD with a program explicitly called "fat32 format", set it active, I put the files of a Win98 bootCD on it, but it failed booting with a black screen and a blinking ...
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Potential Error with MBR on disk image
I am concerned that the disk image I am looking at has been corrupted or created in error some how. (more specifically the formatting of the disk that the image captured)
The highlighted section in ...
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How to delete files/folders with illegal names?
How can I delete a set of files that contain illegal characters including new lines? The file system is FAT32.
On Windows, besides trying with Explorer, which gave me a 80004005 error, I've tried ...
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Files which I copied to ext4 formatted partition appear to have "disappeared". Do they still exist / what happened?
Just an hour ago I used the ext2fsd tool to copy photos from a FAT32 formatted SD card to an ext4 partition on a 2TB HDD while running Windows 10. After the copy operation completed I made the mistake ...
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