Windows 10: Files not showing on exfat hdd

Hi guys.

Hopefully you can help me out. I have a HDD which I formatted to exfat. I downloaded a few videos to it from Mac, which I could then use with my kodi player that I have installed on my PC. I then downloaded a few more and wanted to test them too, but they were not visible PC, the first few that I downloaded still showed Upe though. What can be the issue here?

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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.

 

External HDD Issues

I was given a 3TB hard drive that I am wanting to use for my son's PS4 as extra storage. In order to do so I need to format it to exFat. When I try to do that with my laptop it only shows 349GB as the size. I am trying to use Diskpart to determine if it
is a "read-only" issue, or if I messed it up when I deleted the files that were on it, or if my laptop is unable to support that large of a HDD. I'm not sure. However, when I enter "list disk" in diskpart it shows the full capacity of the HDD (2794GB) and
it shows how much is Free (1698GB). I select the disk and then enter "list volume" in diskpart and it shows the volume. It lists the size as 349GB the status as Healthy the File System as NTFS (which I need to format to exFat) and the type of volume as a Patition.
I select the volume and enter "detail disk" in diskpart and it shows that it's not "read-only". So what gives? Will I be able to format this HDD or am I doing something wrong? Please Help! I'm running out of troubleshooting ideas. I'm kind of leaning toward
the idea that maybe my PC can't support a 3TB HDD, so it is only showing what the system can support. All I want to do is format the drive to an exFat file system and have the full 3TB available for storage. Can someone please explain how I can do this in
diskpart or using some other method?

 

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.