I may just be being dumb here, but I need to format my 128GB Micro SD Card to FAT32. Right clicking the drive in windows explorer and trying to format it, doesn't have a FAT32 option. There doesn't seem to be any options for that in Disk Management either.
I've tried 'fat32format' and the highest default allocation size in the GUI for that program is 64GB.
Am I missing something obvious/trying to achieve something that isn't possible?
Is there a simpler/better way of doing this by booting in to my Ubuntu Gnome drive?
I would be grateful for any help!
EDIT: I don't know if this makes any difference but I'm using a cheap HDD/multi card reading USB dock to connect this to my PC.
By deffault Windows wont offer you fat32 for disks larger than 32GB I think ...
Maybe this guide will help you: http://geekdrop.com/content/how-to-format-hard-drive-to-fat32-in-windows-7-or-vista-or-in-general
What's the filesystem of the SD card now? Try to use a different program to format it, like Minitool Partition Wizard or EaseUS Partition Master. Also to format it to that size you should use pretty big sectors (256 byte or more) and I don't know if Windows allows that. Why don't you try to use in exFAT?
I am sending it to someone who needs both Windows and OSX to be able to read and write files to it without reformatting. They have told me to make sure it is in FAT32 for that reason.
I used MiniTool Partition Wizard when setting up my 64GB for my phone for FAT32.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
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If the person you're sending the card to use an updated version of OSX it will surely support exFAT. You can ask him/she what version is using and than check with a simple research on Google.
Will give that a go. Thanks
I can second what @davedoge said. MiniTool Partition Wizard should do what you need it to.
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