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<\/p>\nUse Rufus to format large USB thumb drives with FAT32.<\/p>\n
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If you try to format a large USB thumb drive with FAT32 you can not use the Windows default format dialog. It just does not offer the option to select FAT32. There is no real technical reason behind that, it was just a decision a Windows developer did a long time ago.<\/p>\n
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If you need your USB drive formatted with FAT32 you can use the free software Rufus<\/a>. In Rufus you select your USB device, select “Non bootable” for Boot selection and hit the start button. All data on the drive is deleted.<\/p>\n After a short time your USB drive is now formatted with FAT32.<\/p>\n Use Rufus to format large USB thumb drives with FAT32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-64792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fat32_en_2.png\")
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\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n Intenso Speed Line, 64GB Speicherstick, USB-Stick 3.2 Gen 1x1, schwarz <\/a>\n \n \n\n \n \n 9,69 EUR<\/span>\n \n <\/a> <\/div>\n\n Buy on Amazon<\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n Sale<\/span>Bestseller No. 3<\/span>\n \n \n ![\"Intenso](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31nipI2wroL._SL160_._SL160_.jpg\")
\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n Intenso Flex Line 32 GB Dual USB-Stick 3.2 Gen 1x1 mit USB-C & USB-A <\/a>\n \n \n\n \n \n 8,09 EUR<\/span>\n \n <\/a> <\/div>\n\n Buy on Amazon<\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n Sale<\/span>Bestseller No. 4<\/span>\n \n \n ![\"SANDISK](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31lWWaMJiKS._SL160_._SL160_.jpg\")
\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n SANDISK 128 GB Ultra Dual Drive GO, USB-C & USB-A , bis zu 400 MB\/s Lesen <\/a>\n \n \n\n \n \n 22,99 EUR<\/span>\n \n <\/a> <\/div>\n\n Buy on Amazon<\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n Sale<\/span>Bestseller No. 5<\/span>\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n Intenso Flex Line 64 GB Dual USB-Stick 3.2 Gen 1x1 mit USB-C & USB-A <\/a>\n \n \n\n \n \n 10,49 EUR<\/span>\n \n <\/a> <\/div>\n\n Buy on Amazon<\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"