P:passes Zero every sector on the volume passes times. Method 1: Formatting external drive with FAT32 file system using Command Prompt. N:sectors Specifies the number of sectors per track. T:tracks Specifies the number of tracks per disk side.
#Why can i not format fat32 on mac mac os#
Especially because in the second post of screen shots it shows a FAT32 physical drive with a Mac OS Extended drive 'under' it - and nothing else. F:size Specifies the size of the floppy disk to format (1.44) If not, why is the physical drive Journaled and the 2 drives 'under' it FAT32/Mac OS Extended Again, I'm not arguing, I'm just having a hard time understanding. NTFS compression is not supported for allocation unit sizes Why Mac cannot recognize the ExFAT drive There might be two causes here. The above requirements cannot be met using the specified According to the great saying, you can find solution for every problem in the world Then why not for unrecognized ExFAT drive Have a look here. Note that the FAT and FAT32 files systems impose theįollowing restrictions on the number of clusters on a volume:įAT32: 65526 < Number of clusters < 4177918įormat will immediately stop processing if it decides that Windows should work with various sizes but your stick may not be read in some devices (ex dvd players or mp3 players or whatever) if the sector size is different than 512.Īt 32 GB, the default cluster size (group of sectors) is 32 KB, meaning 64 x 512 bytes in a cluster.Īs long as you keep the number of clusters within the limitations - 65526 512 bytes).įAT32 supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, You can specify sector size with the /A: command, but 512 is standard.
(format x: as fat32, be quick about it, dismout drive letter if needed) Or, you could use the command line format tool. You could go in computer management > disk management and create two partitions on the usb stick, with one smaller than 32 GB, and format that as FAT32. Windows restricts FAT32 to maximum 32 GB, so if your stick is bigger than that, it hides the option and leaves just ntfs and exFat
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