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Formatting Larger USB Thumb Drives/Sticks
Of course, before you play HD Music you have to have the HD files. There are many download sites
where you can get the files (HDTracks.com is just one). You need to download the files onto a USB
drive. The USB drive needs to be formatted to FAT32 with a limited space memory of 2 TB. Most USB
drives are formatted this way but you can check by right clicking the USB drive in File Explorer and
choosing Format. That will bring up a formatting menu and show the current file system on the drive.
If it’s FAT32 you can exit out. If not, then you can choose FAT32 from the menu and reformat. Be aware
that formatting will remove any files already on the drive.
FAT32 is the most used “file system” for external/removable drive, USB drive, or SD card. The HDSP
processors only works with USB drives formatted FAT32. The maximum archive limit that HDSP-V can
handle is 2TB. W-10 can format (as standard available tool) <32GB. If we use a USB drive <32GB, the
Windows menu will show FAT32 (among the others) as Default. If we instert a >32GB USB drive, the
Default is exFAT, and the FAT32 field is NOT present. Formatting a USB drive >32GB to FAT32 must be
done by partitions with a 3rd party program.
There are a number of programs which you can download from the internet that will allow you to format
the larger USB drives to FAT32 quickly. While you can format larger USD Drives to FAT32 using the
Windows Power Shell, it takes a very long time. One good program is GUIformat.exe which can be
downloaded here. http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
GUIformat.exe is a portable app and does not need to be installed on the computer you can simply
place it on your desktop and use it. (Tip below is from Website “Howtogeek”)
Click on the guiformat.exe file and in the
FAT32 Format window, select the drive to format and type a
volume label, if you want to have one.
Select the
Quick Format option, and then click the Start button.
A window pops up to warn you that all data on the
drive will be lost when you format. Click “OK” to
format the drive.
This tool took a few seconds to format our 64GB USB
drive that took us over an hour in PowerShell.