NTFS vs FAT32 vs exFAT - Everything You Need To Know 

I accidentally misread that as processor, lmao

True, I don't have a Ph.D. only a B.Sc. (Hons). But I guess if I was a professor at University then getting the Ph.D. would be part of the career path.

For external drives with using Linux and Windows i use only EXFat, but always format it in Windows not Linux. If i did the the latter Windows could not read it

Isn't it the case that Professor is just a job title but Phd is an actual qualification. It's generally required to have the latter to have any chance of the former.

Wow amazing. I see that you occasionally reply back to your fans so I am going to subscribe. The reason I was watching your video is I wanted to know more about exFAT Due to the fact that's the file system that is on my drone SD card. Which I believe is a 32 GB Great info thanks Keith

Fat32 is almost deprecated, you can use exFat to get good compatibility and being able to save larger files

so it’s terrible for HD movies etc...

even usb flash drive?

@@lugasing69 yes. You cannot store larger than 4 GB files on flash drives either with fat32 format. That's why I instantly format every USB drive I get to exFat

@@NedalHannaWhat about NFTS?

yes because it can cause a real headache when using multiple FSs on the same drive like I do!!!!

All of those terms are not exclusive to windows but all x86 OSes

GPT 4.0 now XD

Glad to hear it

The FAT has a table of numbers that form linked lists (every number contains the index of the next number). The directory entry has a list of files and their names (12 letters in my time). The entry contains the length in bytes and the index of the 1st FAT entry. These FAT numbers of 8, 12 , 16 or 32 bits are multiplied by a blocksize to get a position on the disk to store the file or directory.

Glad it was helpful!

My pleasure!

Glad it was helpful! 👍

You are very welcome.

Can hard drives be formatted as UDF?

@@NeutralOrNotTooBadStuff Yes, but some operating systems disagree on compatibility with partitioning schemes. Hard drives do not need to be partitioned, but some firmwares have problems with that too.

My pleasure.

That's likely thanks to ntfs-3g , built into pretty much every Linux distro now x)

@@ahnafhabib7531 okay, I understand those barebones distros might not

@@ahnafhabib7531 Arch does but you need to actually install it.

Glad it helped!

Tell me about it!!!!

exFAT has been officially supported with a kernel driver on Linux since version 5.4. People on distros using older kernels need to use the FUSE implementation. macos has supported exFAT since version 10.6.5 according to info I found on the web.

You can't.

Go to a device with usb port 3.0 then use a box for your external hard drive that support usb 3.0 speed. Then you should to have a new Linux OS ( try latest fedora ) Then pluggin your that external harddrive. And pluggin an other hard drive that formated with ntsf. Copy and past file by file or folder by folder directly from your old harddrive with exfat to the new formated one with ntfs. Be sure you copy at same time not more than 4GB. Even you copy all files. Then use that new ntfs external hard drive. The old one should format it wity other format type.

I dual boot windows 10 & Ubuntu and I can read from the windows partition (C:), writing gets weird, I can only write when I restart windows then boot into Ubuntu

@@billmukholi7430 try turning windows fast boot off

And, almost no other systems can use linux file systems :)

I am covering my 1tb external HDD from NTFS to exFAT in order to be able to back up files not only from my windows laptop but from my MacBook too. Currently, working on Mac I can only read from the external HDD but can't write🤷

We be backing up my games Xbox S console and Steam games on PC so need exFAT using external hard drive.

A .iso is an image of a CD or a DVD. Optical disks have their own filesystem that isn't FAT, NTFS etc. For CDs it was defined in ISO 9660 hence the file extension .iso.

Do you think that one could format an SD card as ext4 or xfs or even btrfs?

i noticed with exfat i get stutters in games

i might be wrong but isn't it read only?

@@SomeRandomPiggo No, it works with read-write as well, I have tested it on a USB stick and it works between Windows and Linux but there may be issues.

It is exFAT and I bought through Ali Express

I believe NTFS should do the trick

@@OrangeRock i ended up ditching windows

Don't forget ZFS

2TiB is right at the limit of what FAT32 supports, but Windows tends to hide the option past 32GiB. It may have made exFAT, which is not natively supported by Linux before 5.4; you may want to try exfat-fuse or similar.

If you think you will use it with other non-Windows machines like a Mac, NAS, or even a SmartTV then leave it as exfat. If you know you will only use it Windows then you might want to reformat it as NTFS.

@@GaryExplains just a quick format rather than long?

Yes, quick format is sufficient.

This comment helped me. I use windows and i want to swutch to linux mint. In my internal harddrive (ntfs for windows) I have two partition. One of my stuffs and my files and one of my windows OS. So now i need to format my windows partition to install linux mint. So the other martitiin with ntfs can be useful in linux mint os? Can read and write right?

Microsoft has released exfat its now in the Linux kernel.

Get a Samsung, it's supported by default.

@@foxsux6000 I do use a Samsung and it doesn't. It's Android's limitation.

Use 3rd party file explorer like* MiXplorer... It can read from NTFS.

I mention ext4 at least twice in the video, but this video is about NTFS, exFAT, and FAT32, as it says in the title.

The theoretical file size limit is 16 Exabytes, so we are talking about magnitudes of differences. In the 90s we still had files that could be measured in gigabytes. Even a CDROM was 0.65GB. 0.64GB to 4GB isn't much of a leap. But, 1000TB is 0.001 Exabytes. As I said this a magnitude of difference.

​@@GaryExplains Not to mention factors like video streaming and SSD prices surely slowed down drive's expansion lately and put us on a storage size plateau. My father's top notch PowerMac had a 10GB HDD in the year 2000 (we upgraded it to a bigger one but it could only use 120GB, if I recall properly), his iMac had a 1TB drive in 2010, my PC runs fine on a 240GB SSD. Sorry, I mostly wanted to make an environmentalist joke ;-)

Would love a 1 EXbytes hard drive.

Have you tried PowerShell? Launch PowerShell as an Administrator and run "format /FS:FAT32 X:" in the Window to format the "X:" drive as FAT32. Swap "X:" for the drive letter assigned to your USB drive.

Use diskpart. Run cmd as administrator. Type: diskpart Then type: list disk The output be like this: Disk 0 ( this is be always your internal harddrive ) Disk 1 Disk 2 .... Type: select disk 2 ( please choose your that ssd or your external drive you want to format. ENSURE YOU SELECT THE RIGHT DISK ). When you type "select disk 2" Type: detail disk This will give you all information about the disk you selected ( read abd be sure that disk you want to format ). Type now(be carefull now and ensure that you select the right one): clean After a while the disk be clean ( that mean now is full of free storage. But unllocated. Should create a partition). So before create a partition you should to convert it first: Type: convert gpt ( if you have a removable flash drive you should to convert to mbr "convert mbr" the gpt is for large harddrive. Now create a partition: Type: create partition primary ( if you want to spicify any size just type size=x next to primary (replace x with numbers of your size with bytes) But if you just type "create partition primary" without any size that allow you to use all full storage that in your drive. Then type: format fs=ntfs label="mySSD" quick (If you have any issue now. Just type again "format fs=ntfs quick") Then type: assign letter=F ( type any letter you want to assign to your ssd ( choose available letter ) ) Then type: exit Congratulation you now use full capacity of full GB of your ssd with safety way.