Thread: How to best format thumb drive to put my library on it
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Old 12-02-2016, 12:18 AM   #6
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IIRC on Win7 (maybe Win 10 too) you have to format exFAT drives from the command line, the regular disk format dialogue no longer offers exFAT. The command is:- "format ?: /FS:exFAT"

But first I'd run "chkdsk ?: /f /r /x" - it could take a while.

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