For instance, you cannot play games on PS4 or PS3 when it formatted with NTFS. In a nutshell, you have to format partition to FAT32 as long as the device does not support NTFS or exFAT and recognize FAT32 only. Why reformat to FAT32 from NTFS or exFAT?Īfter knowing the differences between FAT32, NTFS and exFAT, you may understand why you need to do this. And this file system is generally ideal for flash drives. If you need bigger file size and partition limit than FAT32, and better compatibility than NTFS, the exFAT is a great choice. The exFAT achieves a balance between NTFS and FAT32. But its compatibility is not so good: works with all versions of Windows, but read only with Mac by default. FAT32, as traditional file system, has better read and writing compatibility, and can work with all versions of Windows, Mac, Linux, game consoles, and practically anything with a USB port. However, it cannot support partition bigger than 2 TB and single file over 4 GB.Ĭompared to FAT32, NTFS file system has overwhelming advantage on data security, data consistency, the speed of reading and writing and retrieval. Besides, it can support volumes as large as 256TB, and its file size support tops out at 16 EiB. Before you try to change exFAT or NTFS to FAT32, you’d better have a brief knowledge of them.
NTFS, exFAT and FAT32 are the most ordinary file systems in Windows computers. Why and how can I reformt this drive to FAT32 successfully?” “I want to reformat my 500GB drive from NTFS to FAT32 so I can use it on my Mac as well. But when you do it in Disk Management, there is no FAT32 option under file system menu for selection.