Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

This example shows how to “quick format” a memory stick mounted on D: drive to NTFS. The /V parameter assigns a volume label of “NTFS-USB”, and /A specifies the standard NTFS cluster size of 4096 ...

Not all drives speak the same language, and these file systems decide who understands what.

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 ...