There are lots of comments and explanations regarding this problem around the internet. Seems like a driver problem, but i dont know where the FAT32 drivers are ?įor finding the solution quickly, read the bold text. etc etc.Īll Windows 7/8/8.1/10 installation ISO files are designed to be extracted to FAT32. Trying to reformat to NTFS works fine, but a format to FAT32 fails, and the machine wants to format it again. I plug in a known, good drive, and the computer reports that it needs to be formatted. The drives I try are all correctly formatted, and readable. This computer will not read any FAT32 drive, USB, internal or external.
If I try to re-format the drive (or smaller drives) to FAT32, it fails. The screenshot below shows a known good 4GB, properly formatted FAT32 USB stick.ĮaseUS Partition Master recognizes as FAT32, Windows 10 Disk Management sees it as RAW.Partition Master however cannot read the disk contents. I've tried both UEFI (Secure Boot) and Legacy boot.
You can back to another drive, or use a cloud storage service like, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, or Dropbox.My Dell XPS13 notebook will not read any FAT32 formatted drive, be it a USB flash drive or the bootable UEFI partition. Because formatting the drive will delete all of your data, make a backup of anything you want to keep.If you have specific instructions to use FAT32 and your drive is larger than 2GB, you'll need a third-party tool to format it as FAT32-continue with this method.If your drive is larger than 2TB and you just want to use it to share files between multiple modern operating systems (Windows 8 and later, macOS X 10.6.6 and later), use this method instead, and be sure to select exFAT as the file system type.If your drive is larger or you need to work with big files, it's better to use exFAT, which has almost identical compatibility. The main difference is that you can't work with files larger than 4GB on FAT32, nor can it work with drives larger than 2TB.
ExFAT, the successor to FAT32, also works on Windows, macOS, Linux, and other devices.
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