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Subject: Re: rockbox, 64GB SDXC card and win10 format fat32

Re: rockbox, 64GB SDXC card and win10 format fat32

From: John Abrams via rockbox <rockbox_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:14:37 -0700

Aomei partitioner is a great tool and it’s free.

> On Mar 17, 2023, at 7:51 PM, Michael Sparmann via rockbox <rockbox_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> Hello Dave,
>
> That is an arbitrary limitation of Windows' built-in format tool.
>
> There are several third-party tools, which can format larger drives (up
> to 2TB) as FAT32 with no issues.
> https://rufus.ie/ is a commonly used swiss army knife for such (and a
> lot of other) situations.
>
> Best Regards,
> Michael
>
>> Am 18.03.2023 um 03:46 schrieb David Mehler via rockbox:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> An sdhc card that was in my player died today. I am atempting to
>> replace it with a 64GB SDXC card, it came preformatted as xFat which
>> rockbox doesn't support. So since win10's gui-formatter wouldn't
>> format the card fat32 I dropped to an administrative cmd prompt and
>> entered:
>>
>>
>> format letter: /fs:fat32 /q
>>
>> I was informed that the drive is to big for fat32. I am apparently stuck.
>>
>> Help appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
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