Kingston 256GB USB

[anandwadhwa]

Hi I recently bought
Kingston 256GB USB it comes with a default exFAT format is it possible to format it using FAT32 the reason of buying it is to load the images on it and play it back on digital photo frames which unfortunately doesnt detect exFAT. I have a laptop with windows 7 and 64 bit

 

[Brink]

Hello Anandwadhwa, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You could, but you would have to break into 32GB partitions (3 primary (Dk. Blue) and the rest logical (Lt. blue). You would start off by shrinking the 256GB drive (256-32=224*1024=229376) by 229376 MB leaving 32GB. Next, keep shrinking each one by one leaving 32GB per partition. (1GB=1024MB).

You will also not be able to have file's that are 4GB+ in size on a FAT32 partition.

Hope this helps some,
Shawn

 

[anandwadhwa]

Hello Anandwadhwa, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You could, but you would have to break into 32GB partitions (3 primary (Dk. Blue) and the rest logical (Lt. blue). You would start off by shrinking the 256GB drive (256-32=224*1024=229376) by 229376 MB leaving 32GB. Next, keep shrinking each one by one leaving 32GB per partition. (1GB=1024MB).

You will also not be able to have file's that are 4GB+ in size on a FAT32 partition.

Hope this helps some,
Shawn

Thanks Shawn for the info but the drive doesnt allow me to shrink the volume as the shrink volume is greyed out is there any way to shrink it I am sure that the drive is not write protected

 

[Brink]

Could you post a screenshot of the drive in Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to see if we may be able to spot something wrong?

 

[anandwadhwa]

I will do that but do you reckon this is becuase the USB is empty that is why I could not shrink the volume.

Also please let me know whether the command format drive:/FS FAT32 will allow me to format the USB in FAT32 format

 

[Brink]

If the drive has not been initialized (RAW) or formated already, then that may be why it's grayed out. Seing the screenshot will help determine better what may be wrong though.

Unfortunately, the command will not work with it as 256GB. It will start working to a point, but it will eventually give you an error at the very end telling you that the volume is to large for FAT32 after waiting all that time.

 

[anandwadhwa]

ok understood I will forward you the screenshot

 

[anandwadhwa]

pls find the screen shot as you can see the area is grey out please suggest

 

[Brink]

It appears that you may need to format it as NTFS first. Afterwards, you should be able to shrink the partition enough to create a second 32GB partition with. Next, you could format the 32GB partition as FAT32.

Be sure to backup anything that you do not want to lose on that disk first though.

 

[anandwadhwa]

it doesnt allow me to format in any other format except the default exFAT can you guide me if there is any other procedure to format USB in NTFS

 

[Brink]

Well, you might give the free program Partition Manager Home Edition a try to see if it may be able to do this for you. It doesn't seem like Disk Management is going to let you.

 

[anandwadhwa]

Thanks for sending the link to the program it does allow me to create partitions and then format those in FAT32 I am creating 3 partitions as primary each of 32GB as mentioned by you and allocating the remaining as logical but I get a message saying that windows can only recognize the first partition is there any way that all the partitions are recognized by windows

 

[anandwadhwa]

hi I have created the partitions as mentioned by you 3 primary and rest logical and then i formatted them. After doing this as soon as I copy the images it starts to copy and after certain amount of time it copies the pictures but i cannot open those as i get the message that either the pictures are corrupted or deosnt support the format. Please can you suggest the way to handle this issue it looks like something somewhere is not working

 

[anandwadhwa]

Please note that none of the image size is more than 4MB and the total file size is less than 4GB to be precise 3.87GB