Windows 10: exFAT files and Windows

Hi there, as someone who isnt familiar with lots of files ect, I would like some help with a problem I have encountered recently. I bought an microSDcard for my laptop for extra storage I have an Acer Aspire and inserted it with a carrier into a USB reader. The next message told me I had to format it before use so I clicked 'format' then came another message saying Windows could not format the disc. my question is, can I get a driver that understands exFAT files and could someone please explain in laymans terms how I go about solving this problem as I seem to have gone down a rabbit hole whi

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Formating to exFAT

Hi Taylor,

If you want to format an external hard drive or USB flash drive in exFAT, you can follow these steps:

• Press and hold Windows key + x on your keyboard. This open the context menu.
• Select Command Prompt (Admin).
• Type format g: /FS:exFAT and then Enter to begin formatting the G drive as exFAT

For any query, feel free to reach us.

 

exFat

If anyone hasn't heard of exFat, take a look at this. exFAT - Wikipedia

Just swapped to exFat on all my portable drives. I got really frustrated with 4Gb file limitations on my portable drives, as well as limited partition sizes. And i don't use Linux or any other OS to much (Tho i should probably have a Linux box built just for formatting drives). And now that there's a patch for XP as well to support compatibility, i believe its worth it.

 

exFat

All though my 1st thought was ExFat and how to get rid of that ex gf LMAO.

I knew it mean extended and since XP i've only used fat32 once with it witch was a total fail. There is programs that allow you to see Linux from XP visa versa.

NTFS has always worked best for me.