UPDATE: OK, so in response to the suggestions below, I formatted to exFAT. Transferred a movie on to it. Put it in the tablet. Guess what? It won't read it. Says the card is blank and needs to be formatted. So I guess the tablet won't read exFAT-formatted cards. Any other suggestions? By the way, this is the tablet I'm working with: phonearena.com/phones/Verizon-Wireless-Ellipsis-7_id8207 Like I said, it's very basic.
First off, please don't tell me to reformat my drive to NTFS. LOL
I have a very basic tablet that will hold an external microSD card up to 32GB. Obviously, in today’s world, that doesn’t mean much. I bought a 256GB microSD to put in there but found it won’t work unless it’s formatted to FAT32. OK, done. However, as you know, you can’t transfer anything to it over 4GB – a problem if I want to transfer movies and the like! I tried reformatting to NTFS, but then of course the tablet wouldn’t read the card.
Is there a workaround to this so I can transfer large files onto the card – and still have my tablet be able to read them? The tablet itself only has 8GB of storage on it, most of which is filled by the o/s and apps already; there’s less than 1GB free. I'd really like to be able to travel with my tablet and watch movies, but I'm kinda stuck.
The above is about the extent of my knowledge with this stuff. If there IS a workaround, could you please “dumb it down” for me so I can easily do it? ;)
Help?
Thanx, Jamie