important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment
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coffeekingms@hotmail.com
Hi all This is just a warning, nothing earth shattering. I discovered after unwrapping a new 64 gb flash drive for use with my nnls talking book player that windows 10 version 1709, all updates installed, only has the XFat, and ntfs options available when formatting the drive. The digital player can read neither of these file systems. I’ve submitted feedback to ms asking for fat32 to be restored but who knows if it will happen. This is a problem because unless the dp’s firmware is updated, extremely unlikely, people who use windows 10 won’t be able to format new flash drives or reformat old ones without using another program, which I’m sure exist. They won’t be able to do it out of the box unless ms restores the functionality. This seems to only apply to flash drives. External hard drives have only the ntfs option. I’m posting hear because I’m not subscribed to the baard talk list any longer. Sorry if it’s off topic, but I wanted to let everyone know so others can jump on this or provide workarounds if needed. Right now I have a 32 gb flash drive I can use.
Thanks Kendell Clark
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Hi, How about with other flash drives? If it is universal, then it is better to post it on Win10 forum as an advisory. Cheers, Joseph
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of coffeekingms@...
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2017 10:26 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment
Hi all This is just a warning, nothing earth shattering. I discovered after unwrapping a new 64 gb flash drive for use with my nnls talking book player that windows 10 version 1709, all updates installed, only has the XFat, and ntfs options available when formatting the drive. The digital player can read neither of these file systems. I’ve submitted feedback to ms asking for fat32 to be restored but who knows if it will happen. This is a problem because unless the dp’s firmware is updated, extremely unlikely, people who use windows 10 won’t be able to format new flash drives or reformat old ones without using another program, which I’m sure exist. They won’t be able to do it out of the box unless ms restores the functionality. This seems to only apply to flash drives. External hard drives have only the ntfs option. I’m posting hear because I’m not subscribed to the baard talk list any longer. Sorry if it’s off topic, but I wanted to let everyone know so others can jump on this or provide workarounds if needed. Right now I have a 32 gb flash drive I can use.
Thanks Kendell Clark
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coffeekingms@hotmail.com
Hi Would you be willing to post that for me? I believe I’m on the right group but I’m not positive. I can’t say absolutely that it’s universal, but the fat32 option is gone on every single flash drive I have hear, even my wife’s ones, which are already formatted properly. People can still of course use Linux to format them, using mkfs.vfat, but that’s not really user friendly. Some desktops in Linux have a format option that makes it a lot easier, gnome and mate both do, but windows doesn’t right now. The format command line program, if it still exists might be able to do it, but the functionality might be removed there if it hasn’t already been. Thanks Kendell Clark
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> on behalf of Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 12:52:00 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Hi, How about with other flash drives? If it is universal, then it is better to post it on Win10 forum as an advisory. Cheers, Joseph
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Hi all This is just a warning, nothing earth shattering. I discovered after unwrapping a new 64 gb flash drive for use with my nnls talking book player that windows 10 version 1709, all updates installed, only has the XFat, and ntfs options available when formatting the drive. The digital player can read neither of these file systems. I’ve submitted feedback to ms asking for fat32 to be restored but who knows if it will happen. This is a problem because unless the dp’s firmware is updated, extremely unlikely, people who use windows 10 won’t be able to format new flash drives or reformat old ones without using another program, which I’m sure exist. They won’t be able to do it out of the box unless ms restores the functionality. This seems to only apply to flash drives. External hard drives have only the ntfs option. I’m posting hear because I’m not subscribed to the baard talk list any longer. Sorry if it’s off topic, but I wanted to let everyone know so others can jump on this or provide workarounds if needed. Right now I have a 32 gb flash drive I can use.
Thanks Kendell Clark
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No this aint windows fault to be honest.
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Here is the fat system. 01mb and lower to 2gb= fat16. 2gb to 32 gb = fat 32. So its above fat 32. You know I really think talking book players should either support formatting their drives or actually supporting ntfs or reformatting to their own format and have software able to do it. So, in short your 64gb drive can't be used the way you want it, a 32gb drive or a 16gb drive or an 8gb drive but not anything higher than 32gb which is fine for books but yeah you'd think players would support higher storage spaces. On 24/12/2017 7:25 p.m., coffeekingms@... wrote:
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Shaun Everiss <sm.everiss@...> wrote:
You know I really think talking book players should either supportNTFS is harder on flash memory than fat 32. That's why you almost never get flash drives in NTFS, unless they are really large ones like 128 gb and up. The reason NTFS is harder on flash drives is because these things only have a limited number of writes. NTFS is a journalling file system, meaning it writes to the media more often than would happen as fat 32. In addition, NTFS supports permissions, which is often not applicable for flash drives. File permissions could actually create problems on those when you transfer them between computers. The only time you might want to consider formatting a flash drive as NTFS is if you are going to copy a file more than 4gb in size to the drive. |
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Ian Blackburn
If you use Fat that will cope with files bigger than 4GB
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Sent from my iPhone On 24 Dec 2017, at 4:03 pm, Rob Hudson <rob_hudson_3182@...> wrote:
Shaun Everiss <sm.everiss@...> wrote: You know I really think talking book players should either supportNTFS is harder on flash memory than fat 32. That's why you almost never get flash drives in NTFS, unless they are really large ones like 128 gb and up. The reason NTFS is harder on flash drives is because these things only have a limited number of writes. NTFS is a journalling file system, meaning it writes to the media more often than would happen as fat 32. In addition, NTFS supports permissions, which is often not applicable for flash drives. File permissions could actually create problems on those when you transfer them between computers. The only time you might want to consider formatting a flash drive as NTFS is if you are going to copy a file more than 4gb in size to the drive. |
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Brian's Mail list account
Hmm, this would be important to know as the majority of audio players for the blind that play ram sticks will not read ntfs.
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I'm sure you know most of these players only work on the order of files written, not on the file names as well. It seems a little odd to remove such an option. Luckily most players can read fat, and most generic sticks I see are pre formatted in that way. Tell me, what about the command line way of formatting? If you don't know the syntax I can get it for you. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: <coffeekingms@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 6:25 AM Subject: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Hi all This is just a warning, nothing earth shattering. I discovered after unwrapping a new 64 gb flash drive for use with my nnls talking book player that windows 10 version 1709, all updates installed, only has the XFat, and ntfs options available when formatting the drive. The digital player can read neither of these file systems. I’ve submitted feedback to ms asking for fat32 to be restored but who knows if it will happen. This is a problem because unless the dp’s firmware is updated, extremely unlikely, people who use windows 10 won’t be able to format new flash drives or reformat old ones without using another program, which I’m sure exist. They won’t be able to do it out of the box unless ms restores the functionality. This seems to only apply to flash drives. External hard drives have only the ntfs option. I’m posting hear because I’m not subscribed to the baard talk list any longer. Sorry if it’s off topic, but I wanted to let everyone know so others can jump on this or provide workarounds if needed. Right now I have a 32 gb flash drive I can use. Thanks Kendell Clark Sent from my Vizio Ultrabook |
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Brian's Mail list account
Just in case I was thinking of this from my Windows 7 machine.
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Does this work in 10? @echo off set /p drive= Which stick should I use? echo Please wait... format %drive%:/fs:fat32/v:tested pause exit Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io" <bglists@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Hmm, this would be important to know as the majority of audio players for the blind that play ram sticks will not read ntfs. |
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coffeekingms@hotmail.com
Hi Thanks a lot for that little script, it was exactly what I was looking for. Something to put on my desktop to to click on when I get a new flash drive. Looking at the code, it seems to ask which stick to use, but does it actually give a list of sticks, or do you need to provide the drive letter? Also, a prompt for the volume label or name would be nice, but I think I can edit the script to add that since the language doesn’t seem too hard. Something like /p “volume name?” or similar? Thanks Kendell Clark
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> on behalf of Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io <bglists@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 2:56:19 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Just in case I was thinking of this from my Windows 7 machine.
Does this work in 10? @echo off set /p drive= Which stick should I use? echo Please wait... format %drive%:/fs:fat32/v:tested pause exit Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io" <bglists@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment > Hmm, this would be important to know as the majority of audio players for > the blind that play ram sticks will not read ntfs. > I'm sure you know most of these players only work on the order of files > written, not on the file names as well. > It seems a little odd to remove such an option. > > Luckily most players can read fat, and most generic sticks I see are pre > formatted in that way. > Tell me, what about the command line way of formatting? > > If you don't know the syntax I can get it for you. > Brian > > > bglists@... > Sent via blueyonder. > Please address personal email to:- > briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' > in the display name field. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <coffeekingms@...> > To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> > Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 6:25 AM > Subject: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for > flash drives for the moment > > > Hi all > This is just a warning, nothing earth shattering. I discovered after > unwrapping a new 64 gb flash drive for use with my nnls talking book > player that windows 10 version 1709, all updates installed, only has the > XFat, and ntfs options available when formatting the drive. The digital > player can read neither of these file systems. I’ve submitted feedback to > ms asking for fat32 to be restored but who knows if it will happen. This > is a problem because unless the dp’s firmware is updated, extremely > unlikely, people who use windows 10 won’t be able to format new flash > drives or reformat old ones without using another program, which I’m sure > exist. They won’t be able to do it out of the box unless ms restores the > functionality. This seems to only apply to flash drives. External hard > drives have only the ntfs option. I’m posting hear because I’m not > subscribed to the baard talk list any longer. Sorry if it’s off topic, but > I wanted to let everyone know so others can jump on this or provide > workarounds if needed. Right now I have a 32 gb flash drive I can use. > > Thanks > Kendell Clark > > > Sent from my Vizio Ultrabook > > > > > |
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Michel Such
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Just tested it: from the command line: format f: /fs:fat32 and it works fine. Le 2017-12-24 à 09:56, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io a écrit :
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coffeekingms@hotmail.com
Hi I agree about players providing their own software. They could simply auto format flash drives on insertion, with a prompt of course. The problem with the companies providing their own software though is that they would almost certainly limit that software to the operating systems they perceive as popular, meaning windows and possibly mac. They would probably have an app for your smart device. That’s great except then every company which manufactures players would have their own app for their own players, resulting in multiples of the same app by different companies which all do the same thing. Better to have an open source app which multiple companies support if they’re going to go that route. Put it on git hub or something, and have it buildable on whatever OS you use. Pre built ones for windows, mac and maybe Linux as well, and app packages for android and IOS, just to cover all the bases. They wouldn’t even have to support it directly, just work together to develop it then give it to the community, with maybe an email address for help. Thanks Kendell Clark
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> on behalf of Rob Hudson <rob_hudson_3182@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 2:03:36 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Shaun Everiss <sm.everiss@...> wrote:
> You know I really think talking book players should either support > formatting their drives or actually supporting ntfs or reformatting to > their own format and have software able to do it. NTFS is harder on flash memory than fat 32. That's why you almost never get flash drives in NTFS, unless they are really large ones like 128 gb and up. The reason NTFS is harder on flash drives is because these things only have a limited number of writes. NTFS is a journalling file system, meaning it writes to the media more often than would happen as fat 32. In addition, NTFS supports permissions, which is often not applicable for flash drives. File permissions could actually create problems on those when you transfer them between computers. The only time you might want to consider formatting a flash drive as NTFS is if you are going to copy a file more than 4gb in size to the drive. |
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Rick
You can get the list of options for the command version of the format program by typing “format /?” at the command prompt. Below is the result from the latest version of Windows 10.
Formats a disk for use with Windows.
FORMAT volume [/FS:file-system] [/V:label] [/Q] [/L[:state]] [/A:size] [/C] [/I:state] [/X] [/P:passes] [/S:state] FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/F:size] [/P:passes] FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/T:tracks /N:sectors] [/P:passes] FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/P:passes] FORMAT volume [/Q]
volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name. /FS:filesystem Specifies the type of the file system (FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, UDF, ReFS). /V:label Specifies the volume label. /Q Performs a quick format. Note that this switch overrides /P. /C NTFS only: Files created on the new volume will be compressed by default. /X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary. All opened handles to the volume would no longer be valid. /R:revision UDF only: Forces the format to a specific UDF version (1.02, 1.50, 2.00, 2.01, 2.50). The default revision is 2.01. /D UDF 2.50 only: Metadata will be duplicated. /L[:state] NTFS Only: Overrides the default size of file record. By default, a non-tiered volume will be formatted with small size file records and a tiered volume will be formatted with large size file records. /L and /L:enable forces format to use large size file records and /L:disable forces format to use small size file records. /A:size Overrides the default allocation unit size. Default settings are strongly recommended for general use. ReFS supports 64K. NTFS supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K. FAT supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, (128K, 256K for sector size > 512 bytes). FAT32 supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, (128K, 256K for sector size > 512 bytes). exFAT supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M, 32M.
Note that the FAT and FAT32 files systems impose the following restrictions on the number of clusters on a volume:
FAT: Number of clusters <= 65526 FAT32: 65526 < Number of clusters < 4177918
Format will immediately stop processing if it decides that the above requirements cannot be met using the specified cluster size.
NTFS compression is not supported for allocation unit sizes above 4096.
/F:size Specifies the size of the floppy disk to format (1.44) /T:tracks Specifies the number of tracks per disk side. /N:sectors Specifies the number of sectors per track. /P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume will be overwritten "count" times using a different random number each time. If "count" is zero, no additional overwrites are made after zeroing every sector. This switch is ignored when /Q is specified. /S:state Specifies support for short filenames (enable, disable) Short names are disabled by default /TXF:state Specifies txf is enabled/disabled (enabled, disabled) TxF is enabled by default /I:state ReFS only: Specifies whether integrity should be enabled on the new volume. "state" is either "enable" or "disable" Integrity is enabled on storage that supports data redundancy by default. /DAX[:state] NTFS Only: Enable direct access storage (DAX) mode for this volume. In DAX mode, the volume is accessed via the memory bus, boosting IO performance. A volume can be formatted with DAX mode only if the hardware is DAX capable. State can specify "enable" or "disable". /DAX is considered as /DAX:enable.
Rick
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of coffeekingms@...
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 4:04 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment
Hi I agree about players providing their own software. They could simply auto format flash drives on insertion, with a prompt of course. The problem with the companies providing their own software though is that they would almost certainly limit that software to the operating systems they perceive as popular, meaning windows and possibly mac. They would probably have an app for your smart device. That’s great except then every company which manufactures players would have their own app for their own players, resulting in multiples of the same app by different companies which all do the same thing. Better to have an open source app which multiple companies support if they’re going to go that route. Put it on git hub or something, and have it buildable on whatever OS you use. Pre built ones for windows, mac and maybe Linux as well, and app packages for android and IOS, just to cover all the bases. They wouldn’t even have to support it directly, just work together to develop it then give it to the community, with maybe an email address for help. Thanks Kendell Clark
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Brian's Mail list account
It does give a list no, but I guess some kind of addition could be made. I have tweaked my system so that the drive letter is always e or f, but the one I need to not format is m .
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Its very quick, some might say lazy. Ahem. I don't suggest I'm any good at this stuff, just know enough to get by... :-) Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: <coffeekingms@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Hi Thanks a lot for that little script, it was exactly what I was looking for. Something to put on my desktop to to click on when I get a new flash drive. Looking at the code, it seems to ask which stick to use, but does it actually give a list of sticks, or do you need to provide the drive letter? Also, a prompt for the volume label or name would be nice, but I think I can edit the script to add that since the language doesn’t seem too hard. Something like /p “volume name?” or similar? Thanks Kendell Clark Sent from my Vizio Ultrabook ________________________________ From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> on behalf of Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io <bglists@...> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 2:56:19 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Just in case I was thinking of this from my Windows 7 machine. Does this work in 10? @echo off set /p drive= Which stick should I use? echo Please wait... format %drive%:/fs:fat32/v:tested pause exit Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io" <bglists@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Hmm, this would be important to know as the majority of audio players for |
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Brian's Mail list account
How odd, Seems that they bust the windows front end then?
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From: "Michel Such" <michel.such@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Hi, Just tested it: from the command line: format f: /fs:fat32 and it works fine. Le 2017-12-24 à 09:56, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io a écrit : Just in case I was thinking of this from my Windows 7 machine.-- Michel Such |
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coffeekingms@hotmail.com
Hi You’re better at this than I am, I couldn’t even have cobbled this together. I can write a bash script to do it in Linux, since I know the cintax better and I know the command line programs that format stuff, but in windows? Not a chance. I never even considered that this was a bug, I assumed ms deliberately removed it hoping people will migrate over to the newer file systems. Which would be fine except that most blindy devices only support a limited set of them, mostly windows ones, or at least OS agnostic ones like fat and fat32. I do wish they would add ext2/3/4, btrfs, xfs, and some other Linux file systems as native support. It would go well with microsoft’s supposed mission of supporting the competition. It would go right in with wsl, windows subsystem for Linux and their support for gmail and iCloud email accounts. Whether it will happen though is anyone’s guess. I didn’t think they’d ever make windows installation accessible and when they did, they did it right, I have to say. Except for Cortana, that over rides narrator until you turn it off, and I’ve asked them to disable the speech intro if narrator is on. Still allow Cortana functionality, just disable the perky speech intro in favor of narrators, since it announces the intro anyway.
Thanks Kendell Clark
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> on behalf of Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io <bglists@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 3:41:30 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment It does give a list no, but I guess some kind of addition could be made. I
have tweaked my system so that the drive letter is always e or f, but the one I need to not format is m . Its very quick, some might say lazy. Ahem. I don't suggest I'm any good at this stuff, just know enough to get by... :-) Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: <coffeekingms@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Hi Thanks a lot for that little script, it was exactly what I was looking for. Something to put on my desktop to to click on when I get a new flash drive. Looking at the code, it seems to ask which stick to use, but does it actually give a list of sticks, or do you need to provide the drive letter? Also, a prompt for the volume label or name would be nice, but I think I can edit the script to add that since the language doesn’t seem too hard. Something like /p “volume name?” or similar? Thanks Kendell Clark Sent from my Vizio Ultrabook ________________________________ From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> on behalf of Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io <bglists@...> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 2:56:19 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment Just in case I was thinking of this from my Windows 7 machine. Does this work in 10? @echo off set /p drive= Which stick should I use? echo Please wait... format %drive%:/fs:fat32/v:tested pause exit Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal email to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io" <bglists@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment > Hmm, this would be important to know as the majority of audio players for > the blind that play ram sticks will not read ntfs. > I'm sure you know most of these players only work on the order of files > written, not on the file names as well. > It seems a little odd to remove such an option. > > Luckily most players can read fat, and most generic sticks I see are pre > formatted in that way. > Tell me, what about the command line way of formatting? > > If you don't know the syntax I can get it for you. > Brian > > > bglists@... > Sent via blueyonder. > Please address personal email to:- > briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' > in the display name field. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <coffeekingms@...> > To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> > Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 6:25 AM > Subject: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for > flash drives for the moment > > > Hi all > This is just a warning, nothing earth shattering. I discovered after > unwrapping a new 64 gb flash drive for use with my nnls talking book > player that windows 10 version 1709, all updates installed, only has the > XFat, and ntfs options available when formatting the drive. The digital > player can read neither of these file systems. I’ve submitted feedback to > ms asking for fat32 to be restored but who knows if it will happen. This > is a problem because unless the dp’s firmware is updated, extremely > unlikely, people who use windows 10 won’t be able to format new flash > drives or reformat old ones without using another program, which I’m sure > exist. They won’t be able to do it out of the box unless ms restores the > functionality. This seems to only apply to flash drives. External hard > drives have only the ntfs option. I’m posting hear because I’m not > subscribed to the baard talk list any longer. Sorry if it’s off topic, but > I wanted to let everyone know so others can jump on this or provide > workarounds if needed. Right now I have a 32 gb flash drive I can use. > > Thanks > Kendell Clark > > > Sent from my Vizio Ultrabook > > > > > |
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Roger Stewart
I have a utility called FAT 32 Format
that will do the trick. Can't remember where I got this thing,
but it was free. Maybe it's still around or maybe there's an
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Jason White
It appears from the documentation that the format-volume PowerShell command supports FAT32. https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh848665(v=wps.630).aspx
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of mk360
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 8:13 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment
What about using diskpart?
El 24/12/2017 a las 3:25, coffeekingms@... escribió:
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JM Casey <crystallogic@...>
Hi. I always use the format command from the command prompt, and I have a flash drive which we use in my girlfriend’s car, which works best with fat32 format. In fact, I think that might be the only format supported by the car stereo. So, yes, it definitely will format in fat32 if you do this way. Also running Windows 10 build 1709 here.
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of Jason White via Groups.Io
Sent: December 24, 2017 11:30 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment
It appears from the documentation that the format-volume PowerShell command supports FAT32. https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh848665(v=wps.630).aspx
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of mk360
What about using diskpart?
El 24/12/2017 a las 3:25, coffeekingms@... escribió:
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JM Casey <crystallogic@...>
Interesting thread, guys. I never thought of a batch sscript to do the trick. But yes, all file systems are still available using the “format” command from cmd or powershell.
It’s not just the devices for the blind that use Fat32. As I pointed out in a previous post, car stereos do as well. It would be very unwise of MS to remove support for it. For one thing, NTFS is a Windows file system that is not supported by many other devices/oses. Fat can work with basically anything, even though it has limitations. They’re the kind of limitations that don’t really matter when you just want to have music in your car, or whatever.
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of coffeekingms@...
Sent: December 24, 2017 5:24 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] important! Windows 10 doesn't allow fat 32 formatting for flash drives for the moment
Hi You’re better at this than I am, I couldn’t even have cobbled this together. I can write a bash script to do it in Linux, since I know the cintax better and I know the command line programs that format stuff, but in windows? Not a chance. I never even considered that this was a bug, I assumed ms deliberately removed it hoping people will migrate over to the newer file systems. Which would be fine except that most blindy devices only support a limited set of them, mostly windows ones, or at least OS agnostic ones like fat and fat32. I do wish they would add ext2/3/4, btrfs, xfs, and some other Linux file systems as native support. It would go well with microsoft’s supposed mission of supporting the competition. It would go right in with wsl, windows subsystem for Linux and their support for gmail and iCloud email accounts. Whether it will happen though is anyone’s guess. I didn’t think they’d ever make windows installation accessible and when they did, they did it right, I have to say. Except for Cortana, that over rides narrator until you turn it off, and I’ve asked them to disable the speech intro if narrator is on. Still allow Cortana functionality, just disable the perky speech intro in favor of narrators, since it announces the intro anyway.
Thanks Kendell Clark
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