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[Colif]

Bios should recognise Exfat as well, mainly as USB drives getting bigger, and finding an 8gb one will one day be hard to do.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Bios should recognise Exfat as well, mainly as USB drives getting bigger, and finding an 8gb one will one day be hard to do.

It did not unfortunately, maybe just a Gigabyte problem or B550 problem. I tried multiple times.

 

[Colif]

Seems you are right, its NTFS now.

You can swap it to FAT32 in the formating screen.

I am sure I formatted a USB with BIOS on it in Windows 11, so it might be a recent change. I can't seem to find an answer to when it changed.

Seems it still needs to be FAT32 in BIOS, as I said already that needs to change soon

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

It was a brand new USB drive if that makes any difference. The drop down format menu in Windows listed ExFAT and NTFS and nothing else. But in the partition manager I was able to get FAT32 and then it saw it in BIOS.

Windows 11 Home build 22632 apparently. I just let it update when it asks as theres nothing mission critical for it to break here, and I'm really not fussy about OS stuff unless its actively making my PC crash or break.

 

[Colif]

its probably the size of the drive that made windows offer those 2, EXfat is for drives 32gb or over, as Fat32 is only 32bit and can only access so much space.

I am getting ram size mixed up now.. was USB 32gb or smaller?

Later I will find an 8gb drive and try format it.

I am on 22631, just to be different. Windows says I am up to date.