Format SD and micro SD cards into NTFS not FAT32

kirby7777 · Jul 22, 2013

Can SD and micro SD cards be formatted into NTFS instead of FAT 32 ?

Obviously with NTFS it can not be used in camera and smart phone but can it be used as storage in Windows laptop and Android tablet?

Thanks.

petteyg359 · Jul 22, 2013

kirby7777 said:
Can SD and micro SD cards be formatted into NTFS instead of FAT 32 ?

Obviously with NTFS it can not be used in camera and smart phone but can it be used as storage in Windows laptop and Android tablet?

Thanks.

Why bother? Unless the card is larger than 32 GB (Windows won't format a larger device as FAT32, though it can read one just fine; theoretically, FAT32 supports nearly 8 TB, though you'll need to format the device with a better OS), there's no point.

kirby7777 · Jul 22, 2013

Definitely bother.

Some card is larger then 32Gb.
Many files are a lot larger then 4Gb.

Maybe software like this helps http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

Moreover, unlike this tiny utility, the Windows tool does not offer a NTFS volume label for format; the freeware in discussion also allows users to create a FAT32 volume which is larger than 32 GB.

cullam3n · Jul 22, 2013

petteyg359 said:
Why bother? Unless the card is larger than 32 GB (Windows won't format a larger device as FAT32, though it can read one just fine; theoretically, FAT32 supports nearly 8 TB, though you'll need to format the device with a better OS), there's no point.

FAT32 also can't have a file size greater than 4GB. Might be an issue if you are trying to move blu-ray rips or DVD ISOs around.

bing · Jul 22, 2013

Read here especially the pro & con for each types -> http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

petteyg359 · Jul 23, 2013

cullam3n said:
FAT32 also can't have a file size greater than 4GB. Might be an issue if you are trying to move blu-ray rips or DVD ISOs around.

An SD card is hardly an efficient medium for such transfers, given limited transfer speeds, and it's easy to split files (multi-part 7zip archives with no compression are my preference, though a multitude of freeware-of-dubious-quality is available).

lopgok · Jul 23, 2013

kirby7777 said:
Can SD and micro SD cards be formatted into NTFS instead of FAT 32 ?

Obviously with NTFS it can not be used in camera and smart phone but can it be used as storage in Windows laptop and Android tablet?

Thanks.

If you do format with NTFS be careful to use the 'safely remove hardware and eject media' applet with windows. Just yanking the SD card out is far more likely to corrupt data than with FAT 32. As others have pointed out, you don't have much of a choice if you want to store files bigger than 4gb.

kirby7777 · Jul 24, 2013

lopgok said:
If you do format with NTFS be careful to use the 'safely remove hardware and eject media' applet with windows. Just yanking the SD card out is far more likely to corrupt data than with FAT 32. As others have pointed out, you don't have much of a choice if you want to store files bigger than 4gb.

Thanks. I thought FAT 32 is more vulnerable then NTFS for the above.

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