When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...
With Apple's licensing of Microsoft's exFAT file system, it seems like we finally have a good option for OS X and Windows disk swapping. Dave Girard spent some time investigating the appeal, the ...
When formatting 32GB or more of disk space with the standard function of Windows 10, you cannot select FAT32 format. With the open source format software ' Rufus ', it is possible to format USB memory ...
If you need to read HFS+ disks on your Android device, this software makes it possible. The inability to read Apple’s natively formatted HFS+ disks on an Android device is a rather petty issue, even ...
I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...
Today, Microsoft announced that it's going to be supporting adding exFAT to the Linux kernel. If you're unfamiliar with exFAT, it's the file system that's the successor to FAT32, used in Windows, SD ...
Microsoft has announced the public release of the exFAT file system specification, claiming it supports 'the eventual inclusion of a Linux kernel with exFAT support' - years after introducing the ...
Microsoft is reversing a restriction that was incomprehensible to many users and is once again supporting the FAT32 file system with data carriers that hold more than 32 GB of data. Previously, ...
Yesterday, we reported that users were complaining about the latest OneDrive update not supporting any file systems other than NTFS. The new sync client for Windows effectively ended support for older ...