I have a Note 10.1 with a 32gb sd card. I put a bunch of mp4 movies on the card and can play them without any problems on my note 10.1. I started running low on space so I got a 64gb sd card. I copied some movies to the card and figured everything would play just like with the 32gb card. However, the movies won't play. They are on the card, the titles show up on my list, but the length of the movie shows as 00:00:00. I know the data is on the card Beca use when I look at what is taking up space on the memory card, the movies are a big chunk of it. Can anyone tell me how I can get them to play? I don't get what the difference is between playing from the 32gb card and the 64gb card.
Thanks, GL
Might just be a copy error, can you use a card reader and play the movies off your PC
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It looks like your microSD is corrupted:
Unplug your microSD from your SGN 10.1
Insert it into a MS Windows PC
Press Win+R then type: chkdsk [your_card_drive_letter]: /x /f /r
Wait until it is finish checking
After finish & if it found some errors open Windows Explorer & in the Address Bar type: [your_card_drive_letter]:\FOUND.[3_digit_number]
Replace [3_digit_number] with (usually) 000 or increment it by 1 if there is no folder by that name.
Inspect the file(s) if there's an important file (look at the content, not the filename)
After everything is done you can try to repeat step 1 again to make sure.
Re-copy the movie you want to watch
Replace [your_card_drive_letter] with the appropriate letter of your microSD card.
Thanks, but I have a mac. I tried formatting the card to FAT32 with disc utility. That may have been what messed the card up. It's strange, because my tablet recognizes the card and shows that it's a 64gb card, other functions work normally as far as saving data to it, but it won't play the movies. I've also tried formatting the card with sdFormatter for mac. It goes through the whole process and says the card has been formatted, yet it ends up the same as before I started. There are still folders on it that should have been erased during the process, and when I load a movie on it and try playing it on the tablet still nothing. I have tried formatting the card in the tablet, but the same thing happens. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, GL
d4rkkn16ht said:
It looks like your microSD is corrupted:
Unplug your microSD from your SGN 10.1
Insert it into a MS Windows PC
Press Win+R then type: chkdsk [your_card_drive_letter]: /x /f /r
Wait until it is finish checking
After finish & if it found some errors open Windows Explorer & in the Address Bar type: [your_card_drive_letter]:\FOUND.[3_digit_number]
Replace [3_digit_number] with (usually) 000 or increment it by 1 if there is no folder by that name.
Inspect the file(s) if there's an important file (look at the content, not the filename)
After everything is done you can try to repeat step 1 again to make sure.
Re-copy the movie you want to watch
Replace [your_card_drive_letter] with the appropriate letter of your microSD card.
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gl.08chc said:
Thanks, but I have a mac. I tried formatting the card to FAT32 with disc utility. That may have been what messed the card up. It's strange, because my tablet recognizes the card and shows that it's a 64gb card, other functions work normally as far as saving data to it, but it won't play the movies. I've also tried formatting the card with sdFormatter for mac. It goes through the whole process and says the card has been formatted, yet it ends up the same as before I started. There are still folders on it that should have been erased during the process, and when I load a movie on it and try playing it on the tablet still nothing. I have tried formatting the card in the tablet, but the same thing happens. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, GL
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Never ever use FAT32 on 64GB & above storage (any storage)
Filesystem standard for storage nowadays is dominated by Microsoft, so you need Ms Windows to repair any errors without compromising any other data by formatting it (I hate this, but what can I say....).
Luckily, in Linux (Mac long lost sibling ) there's a tool called fsck & it can check & repair any MS filesystem (not recommended but handy if needed)
And also LUCKILY......Android=Linux.....
Back to point 1,AGAIN.....never EVER use FAT32 on 64GB & above storage.
The following limitations exist using the FAT32 file system with Windows operating systems:
Clusters cannot be 64 kilobytes (KB) or larger. If clusters were 64 KB or larger, some programs (such as Setup programs) might calculate disk space incorrectly.
A volume must contain at least 65,527 clusters to use the FAT32 file system. You cannot increase the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32 file system so that it ends up with less than 65,527 clusters.
The maximum possible number of clusters on a volume using the FAT32 file system is 268,435,445. With a maximum of 32 KB per cluster with space for the file allocation table (FAT), this equates to a maximum disk size of approximately 8 terabytes (TB).
The ScanDisk tool included with Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98 is a 16-bit program. Such programs have a single memory block maximum allocation size of 16 MB less 64 KB. Therefore, The Windows 95 or Windows 98 ScanDisk tool cannot process volumes using the FAT32 file system that have a FAT larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size. A FAT entry on a volume using the FAT32 file system uses 4 bytes, so ScanDisk cannot process the FAT on a volume using the FAT32 file system that defines more than 4,177,920 clusters (including the two reserved clusters). Including the FATs themselves, this works out, at the maximum of 32 KB per cluster, to a volume size of 127.53 gigabytes (GB).
You cannot decrease the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32 file system so that the FAT ends up larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size.
You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32 file system in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 FastFAT driver can mount and support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create one using the Format tool. This behavior is by design. If you need to create a volume larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system instead.
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Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/184006
It means that the maximum capacity that FAT32 supports is 32GB.
Normally, 64GB & above storage come with exFAT from the factory....until....you format it to FAT32.
In MS Windows, you can't format 64GB & above storage with FAT32 (even if you want to).
Unfortunately, Mac & Linux users can accidentally format it to FAT32.
How to covert it to exFAT without losing data?
In MS Windows: convert /FS:EXFAT
In Linux: gparted
As you use Mac, I don't know how to do that....BUT, I can recommend you to use any Linux LIVECD/DVD.
I'm using Linux Mint & in the LiveCD Gparted is included.
it's a partitioning application with GUI (of the command line tool called parted)
Try it & ask me if you have any question.
Ok, thanks. I was formatting to FAT32 because that's what I read on one of these forums was the way to be able to use a 64gb card with my tablet. I will try your suggestions when I get back into town next week and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the help, hope this works
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Ok, thanks. I was formatting to FAT32 because that's what I read on one of these forums was the way to be able to use a 64gb card with my tablet. I will try your suggestions when I get back into town next week and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the help, hope this works
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I don't know what ROM that you use but remember to UPDATE beforehand.
exFAT filesystem needs a kernel support & older Android kernel version doesn't support it.
Using custom kernel can guarantee kernel support for exFAT.
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Hey I figured out why my damn SD card is reading only half its available memory. Guess what happened, when i formatted in camera, camera partitioned the drive as a 1gb drive, so there is 1gb of unpartitioned space on the card (thanks to vista for showing me that). Now here is the issue, I cant find a partitioning software for free that will delete the partition and let me create it. Any ideas?
I like beer.
paragon partition manager, then sd card reader(format) to make you safe...
if you're in windows vista you can partition it through the drive manager. just go to the start menu and right click on "computer" and choose "manage" and then choose "disk management". just click on the partition of your memory card whether you are using wm5torage or you have it hooked up through a card reader (separate or camera) and use the app to resize and format the partition. i was able to do this with other removeable storage devices...
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if you're in windows vista you can partition it through the drive manager. just go to the start menu and right click on "computer" and choose "manage" and then choose "disk management". just click on the partition of your memory card whether you are using wm5torage or you have it hooked up through a card reader (separate or camera) and use the app to resize and format the partition. i was able to do this with other removeable storage devices...
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I tried that, no option to resize
And do to a very nasty virus, I had to reinstall everything on machine. Now im stuck on Vista Ultimate. Gonna have to rebuild my ROM collection. Hope I still have alot of them at work, if not, oh well, Starting from scratch is always fun.
nottoosmart said:
I tried that, no option to resize
And do to a very nasty virus, I had to reinstall everything on machine. Now im stuck on Vista Ultimate. Gonna have to rebuild my ROM collection. Hope I still have alot of them at work, if not, oh well, Starting from scratch is always fun.
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hmm...i'm on vista ultimate and i have an option to either "extend volume" or "shrink volume" when i right click on the drive in the bottom half of the screen...
if you're in vista you can try one of the progs that are listed as compatible (never tried any of the apps):
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List
good luck...
You can try this, it might be able to fix it, i am not sure about the partition size though.
CNetX Flash Format v2.68
*Supports all ATA compliant and SD compliant storage cards, including:
**Compact Flash cards
**Secure Digital cards (SD cards)
**Mini SD and Micro SD cards
**Multimedia Cards (MMC)
**SmartMedia cards
**Memory Sticks
**PCMCIA memory cards
**large capacity MicroDrives.
*Runs as a Control Panel applet (accessible from "Start > Settings")*
*Automatic detection of card insertion and removal, so you can check, *repair or format multiple cards easily, one after the other.
*AutoRun feature, to automate the execution of specific files whenever a card is inserted (Pocket PC and Smartphone edition only).
*Provides detailed storage and file statistics (including FAT Type, slack space, heads, cylinders, sectors, clusters, etc.).
*Detailed verification of card integrity and error reporting.
*Detects and repairs allocation errors.
*Supports multiple storage cards simultaneously.
*Formatting features with selection of File System and clusters size.
*FAT Backup option, to improve storage reliability.
*Option to create "My Documents" folder when formatting.
*Option to automatically restore InBox Attachments folder (for Pocket PC 2000 devices).
*Compatibility option for Digital Cameras.
*Automatically perform integrity check after formatting.
*Full install/uninstall support, with embedded software reset.
*Detailed context sensitive Help (accessible via "Start > Help").
*English and German versions available.
http://ppcwarez.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18866&highlight=cnetx+flash+format
dual boot, dual boot, dual boot... gotta have it...
mattk_r said:
dual boot, dual boot, dual boot... gotta have it...
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Agree to that all the time.. been doing that since windows 3.1
Anybody has any idea why I'm getting "file is too large to copy" when copying 7 GB file to internal SD on Viewsonic G-Tablet when 13GB is free?
I guess it's becouse it's formatted as FAT32. So how do I exactly get any MKVs which I have which are all more then 4GB to play on my G-Tablet? Can I reformat SD as exFAT or some other format which supports bigger file sizes.
i know after a while of me copying and deleting stuff my available space would get smaller. after 2 weeks of use i noticed this, so i erased everything off of the internal and i was left with 5gb of free space. i reformatted to fat32 and had my 12 or 13gb back.
Issue is not with available space but file size limitation on FAT32 of 4 GB.
artisticcheese said:
Issue is not with available space but file size limitation on FAT32 of 4 GB.
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ah i see, don't know then :/
I don't think there's any fix, at this time. I read that Froyo's VOLD (which controls the mouting process) only supports vFAT. The previous VOLD at least supported EXT2/3(?) which was helpful for us Linux folks.
This is really a big issue given the limitations of FAT32 and the fact that none of these bozo vendors can agree on a standard format.
Resume: Use FAT32 when formatting External Micro SD Card and, preferentially, format using the device storage options.
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Hi there, guys! After trying hard to discover why and solve some random reboots I found out, after reading about SD Cards causing issues on other devices, something that may help anyone facing this.
When I bought for my Note 3 I also bought a Kingston 32 GB Micro SD Card and formatted it using Windows 7 to exFAT System File, since it was the default option. After facing some hangs, force closes and random reboots for some days, yesterday I decided to make a complete backup and format it using Note 3 itself.
After this what I noticed, when restoring files on Windows, is that the device formatted it to FAT32 System File. And, since then, everything is working nice, without force closes, random reboots or hangs. I know maybe it's early to confirm anything, but I'm confident that running my SD Card on exFAT was giving me trouble!
By the way, I decided to create a poll asking which System File we, Galaxy Note 3 owners, use. We may create a balance and find out if any format is creating any trouble in general.
Cheers!
When you're recording 4K video, maybe you will need NTFS format for files over 4gb..
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MILJANN said:
When you're recording 4K video, maybe you will need NTFS format for files over 4gb..
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But there is a limit of 5 minutes, if I'm not wrong. Maybe it is because of the file size limitation, for people using FAT32, since it's the default File System the device chooses when formatting Micro SD.
By the way, I didn't record anything in 4K yet, so I don't know which is the maximum file size we can get. Will test here...
MILJANN said:
When you're recording 4K video, maybe you will need NTFS format for files over 4gb..
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exFAT supports up to 16EB files in size. That's Exabyte.
You could record a whole month non-stop in 4K and not exceed the filesize limit.
Not all android devices support NTFS by default.
I use Fat32 on my MicroSD, which is rather annoying as I want to have blurays on it, but I can't bebothered to reformat all 64GB and copy it all back. So I just keep all 4GB+ files internally, seems to work fine. (Everything possible is on my MicroSD so I have 22GB free internally.)
ShadowLea said:
exFAT supports up to 16EB files in size. That's Exabyte.
You could record a whole month non-stop in 4K and not exceed the filesize limit.
Not all android devices support NTFS by default.
I use Fat32 on my MicroSD, which is rather annoying as I want to have blurays on it, but I can't bebothered to reformat all 64GB and copy it all back. So I just keep all 4GB+ files internally, seems to work fine. (Everything possible is on my MicroSD so I have 22GB free internally.)
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By the way, I almost forgot the huge internal space and I previously formatted Micro SD using exFAT imagining the day I would put a bigger than 4 GB video file, like once I needed in the past.
Great tip you gave!
Edit: Further, we need to remember that with Note 3, different from Note II, we can again put apps on external storage!
Tried it in the pool. My sd card and my phone are now broken
nakedtime said:
Tried it in the pool. My sd card and my phone are now broken
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When you record 4k its sent to the internal memory which is ext4.
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zanzee said:
When you record 4k its sent to the internal memory which is ext4.
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Are there problems by formatting the external card to ext4 too? Don't. Have. A. microSD. Card. Yet. To. Try. It. NOW! arghhhhhh!
EDIT: no need to try, it doesn't work on stock roms.. Nice Google! Really nice!
I used the following command to convert a fat32 external drive to ntfs without losing data: Convert H: /FS:NTFS in command prompt, where H: would be your microsd card's drive letter when used in a Vista+ windows environment and a card reader. Can't guarantee data loss ofcourse so a backup would be wise.
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I have a Samsung 64 GB micro SD. It came already formatted with ExFat and fortunately so far so good.
A few years ago I had a faulty card reader for pc. My camera could not recognise the SD card and my phone had random reboots with a micro SD after formatting. It is a possibility.
I don't understand much about this topic and I have not formatted with windows in a while, but I remember I could choose among several parameters (something like block size?). My point is that maybe the note 3 requires a different set of Exfat parameters than windows default ones to work well
It is just an idea.
iiSo say we all!! From my Note 3 (N9005)
nakedtime said:
Tried it in the pool. My sd card and my phone are now broken
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Don't blame me about this. Blame SwiftKey keyboard auto correction! hahahahaha
cyriacus said:
I used the following command to convert a fat32 external drive to ntfs without losing data: Convert H: /FS:NTFS in command prompt, where H: would be your microsd card's drive letter when used in a Vista+ windows environment and a card reader. Can't guarantee data loss ofcourse so a backup would be wise.
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That's great! Didn't know that this was possible without needing to format the whole card.
inolvidable said:
I have a Samsung 64 GB micro SD. It came already formatted with ExFat and fortunately so far so good.
A few years ago I had a faulty card reader for pc. My camera could not recognise the SD card and my phone had random reboots with a micro SD after formatting. It is a possibility.
I don't understand much about this topic and I have not formatted with windows in a while, but I remember I could choose among several parameters (something like block size?). My point is that maybe the note 3 requires a different set of Exfat parameters than windows default ones to work well
It is just an idea.
iiSo say we all!! From my Note 3 (N9005)
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Well, the point is that I was experiencing a lot of random reboots here and didn't get no one since I used the device itself to format micro SD again.
I don't remember in which file system my Kingston 32 GB Micro SD came by default, but I used Windows 7 to format it on exFAT.
Probably the device itself formats the card the way more compatible possible, bringing stability.
By the way, since a lot of people already voted for exFAT and didn't tell anything about random reboots or issues, maybe this is not a real issue related to all exFAT, but maybe it is for people who used Windows (like myself) to format micro SD.
I've seen other threads allude to this, but I've been wondering if anyone else has had any of these problems with microSD cars in the Phab2 Pro and know of any solutions?
Things I've encountered:
No exFAT support, so you need to format larger cards as FAT32 (not really a problem per se, but annoying).
All the Samsung EVO/EVO+ SD cards I've tried in this thing do fine as portable SD cards until it exceeds around 10GB, then a re-boot or re-mount claims the card is corrupted. Mounting the card on my PC/Mac shows no problems.
Adoptable storage works for my large 128GB EVO+ card (which made me not return the phone), but I notice that my 64GB EVO card can't be adopted and the error is a weird toast message:
"java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Thread Binder gave up waiting after 180000ms" (something to this effect from my recollection).
I should point out that these SD cards have never had problems on other Android devices I've owned, so it seems very specific to this device. Basically, the only workaround I have right now that works for me is to use adoptable storage and that is adequate for my needs.
The Lenovo Phab2 Pro, by default, reformats newly installed microSD cards to a better file system than FAT32. See post below:
Not FAT32
Got my new Samsung 64GB microSD card & installed it in my Phab2 Pro last weekend. First thing, the Phab2 Pro reported that the card was not formatted properly and did I want it reformatted? I did and it did.
Looking now at the newly formatted microSD card with ES File Explorer and with Lenovo's bundled File Manager, I couldn't tell which standard the card was formatted to.
To the point, I plugged the phone into my laptop, navigated to the microSD card in Windows File Explorer and copied a 6GB file to it, no problem. I verified that the copy was successful by disconnecting the phone from the laptop and opening the file in Android.
I don't know which file system the Phab2 Pro uses by default to format microSD cards but I know it ISN'T FAT32. FAT32 supports a maximum file size of 4GB and, since the microSD card supports larger files (after allowing the phone to reformat the card to its default file system), it isn't FAT32.
roebling said:
Got my new Samsung 64GB microSD card & installed it in my Phab2 Pro last weekend. First thing, the Phab2 Pro reported that the card was not formatted properly and did I want it reformatted? I did and it did.
Looking now at the newly formatted microSD card with ES File Explorer and with Lenovo's bundled File Manager, I couldn't tell which standard the card was formatted to.
To the point, I plugged the phone into my laptop, navigated to the microSD card in Windows File Explorer and copied a 6GB file to it, no problem. I verified that the copy was successful by disconnecting the phone from the laptop and opening the file in Android.
I don't know which file system the Phab2 Pro uses by default to format microSD cards but I know it ISN'T FAT32. FAT32 supports a maximum file size of 4GB and, since the microSD card supports larger files (after allowing the phone to reformat the card to its default file system), it isn't FAT32.
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Any idea what file system Windows thinks it is? I didn't think it was exFAT since a fresh format of exFAT from Windows gets the "not formatted properly" message.
I've since given up on this phone--too many problems for me to tolerate. I really wanted to like it, but alas, when my three year old Z Ultra behaves better, I just can't justify paying this much for it. Maybe I got a lemon.
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Any idea what file system Windows thinks it is? I didn't think it was exFAT since a fresh format of exFAT from Windows gets the "not formatted properly" message.
I've since given up on this phone--too many problems for me to tolerate. I really wanted to like it, but alas, when my three year old Z Ultra behaves better, I just can't justify paying this much for it. Maybe I got a lemon.
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You have two formatting choices for microSD cards with the Phab2 Pro. You can choose to format the card as "portable storage" or "internal storage".
I just put in a 64GB microSD card and had the phone format it as portable storage, I then ejected it and mounted it in Windows and the Disk Manager tool reports the card as formatted as FAT32 (see attachment).
Installed a SanDisk 256GB card model (SDSQUNI-256G-GN6MA)
Let the phone format the card, choose internal storage, then it asked to move files, pics and apps to the new card, I clicked accept.
It worked! Phone reads the card, so far no issues, see attached pic.
128GB or 256 ?
Hi,
you said in the last message you have a 256GB card, but i have seen the phab 2 pro take 128 and no more. I have the 690M model.
256 or 128 GB ?
Thanks,
Philippe
I have the 690Y and took a chance to see if the 256GB card would work and it does. That's why I listed the model number of the SD card. Even though Lenovo states on their website up to 128GB, it looks like it's a hit or miss on which card you use as others have posted.
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. The 256G is to expansive so i took a 128G (SDSQUNC-128G-GN6MA). It works fine.
Philippe
Hi please help me!,any brand of sd card it shows corrupted,but if i tried to other phone it worked. What will i do?
Hello,
I desperately wish I could use another filesystem (exFAT, NTFS, etc) but I need my external HDD to be readable from my Amazon Fire TV box, Android phone/tablet, and hopefully iOS devices (though the latter is less of an issue if this won't work). From everything I've read, the ONLY file system that can be read by all of these is FAT32. I've tried on my Android phone/tablet using other options like NTFS and even using premium apps, I could get the drive to mount but nothing could be read. I only include this information but I know FAT32 isn't the best option and people will rightfully share that with me but sadly, it's the only option I have in this case.
I also know that while 2TB should be the max that FAT32 can handle, there are several people who have successfully gotten around that. If needed, I can share links to a post talking about that. However, what no one can seem to share is how to actually do that? Do I need to change the disk sector size? I've tried using multiple different software including AOMEI Partition Assistant, EaseUS Partition Master, and MiniTool Partition Wizard, obviously Windows built in (useless), and one or two others whose names escape me at the moment and, although most of them advertise that they can handle FAT32 partitions larger than 2TB, I can find no info on how to actually use them to accomplish this. Is GParted able to do this without problems? Is there any other program that can? Can anyone please share what I need to do to accomplish this? I know I have to have GPT rather than MBR but I don't know what else I need to do.
Thanks so much in advance! I truly appreciate any tips or advice you can share! Take care!!
Open a command window by going to Start, then Run and typing in CMD.
Now type in the following command at the prompt:
format /FS:FAT32 X:
Replace the letter X with the letter of your external hard drive in Windows. Windows will go ahead and begin formatting the drive in FAT32!
Format external hard drive fat32
There seems to also be an issue when using the command line besides the size limit problem. Namely, it can take forever to format the hard drive for some users. Not sure why, but I’ve seen it enough times and it can be very frustrating to wait 5 hours and then have the whole format fail.
As I know the snap-in disk management could not support formating partition from NTFS to FAT 32 when it is larger than 32 GB, if you want do that, you could use some partition software, such as Partition Assistant, GParted, and etc, btw, from your post it mentioned Acronis Disk Director, unquestionable, it is a powerful partition software, however, it need cost too much.
This should be possible with gparted, as long as the sector size of your hard disk is greater than 512 Byte. If not, 2TB will be the limit with Fat32.