However, the file system is not supported by many older systems. In theory, data capacity of up to 2 TB is possible, but Microsoft has limited the partition size in newer systems to 32 GB in order to promote the modern NFTS format.ĮxFAT is a further development of FAT that in principle offers unattainable storage and data capacity. The maximum data size is limited to 4 GB in the latest version FAT32.

It is not supported by many applications.įAT is a file system developed by Microsoft that is also supported by Linux and macOS. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with the addition that the file system can differentiate between upper and lower case (e.g. HFS+ or Mac OS Extended (case-sensitive and journaled) Windows/Linux devices are only able to read but not write on USB sticks in this format. Step 4: Right-click on the drive and choose Format. Step 3: Open Windows Explorer, click the Computer section in the sidebar and find your drive.

Step 2: If you have already written any data to the drive, back it up before proceeding to the next step. A file system developed by Apple that is particularly suited to data media with large memory capacity. Step 1: Plug your external hard drive into your computer.