Flash Drive Question's

Ok here is my question here.

I am planing on using a flash drive in my car so it can play music off it.

Now my question is should i use FAT32 File System,exFAT File System, or NTFS File System.

I have over 10,000 songs and i am pretty sure they will all fit on a 65 gig flash drive stick.

The one i plan on using is a Scan disk.
I have a Blue T Cell one but that does not work in my car since it is made in japan or china don't know which one.But any who.

What works better for movies and videos FAT32 File System,exFAT File System, or NTFS File System.

Be cause i need to move lots of files around.

• FAT32 File System - if the user needs to work with a relatively small number of medium-sized or large files, the FAT32 file system is good enough to be used with modern USB3 flash disks.
• exFAT File System - if the user needs to work with thousands of files stored on a USB3 disk and perform different types of operations, it is recommended to reformat the USB flash disk using the exFAT file system.
• NTFS File System - if the user needs to work with tens of thousands of files stored on a USB3 flash disk and perform many different types of operations, it is highly recommended to reformat the USB flash disk using the NTFS file system.

 

What does the device in the car read/accept in terms of file systems? How about the max. drive size it will accept?

Why doesn't the Blue T Cell work in your car, what FAT does it have?

 

I think it only accepts Fat 32 be cause i just tried to use NTFS and exFAT and it did not work.I think it only uses Fat 32.The only drive i have that uses a Fat 32 is my Team group flash drive the others are using exFAT and NTFS.But is there away to convert them to use Fat 32 option.

 

Reformat them from Windows > Disk Management.

 

Ok i will see what happens here

 

Ok the only two that are popping up is NTFS and exFAT.

In the Disk Manager

 

Ok sweet i found a little tiny program that will format a usb drive to Fat 32.

It will add the option to Format your usb or HDD drive to Fat 32 for free.It is a very small Program and it works faster than windows format system.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

If this tool is not on the tool list i would add it.Very handy.

 

Hmm, the drive is over 32GB, Windows GUI won't do it, sorry - try from an Administrative CMD box: format /FS:FAT32 X:
Where X: is replaced by current drive letter of the USB drive - check/double-check this, get the drive letter wrong and you might format the wrong drive.

format X: /FS:FAT32 might be the more recent form of this command, or an alternative.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730730.aspx

You can't use a FAT32 drive for files of 4GB or greater!

 

That program i posted up works fine bud it formatted my 65 gig usb with in seconds to a Fat 32 option.

 

Excellent.

 

I tell you one thing windows Formatting sucked on Xp and still sucks on windows 10 lol.

 

Dropping to DOS in NT4 was neat