If Windows won't format your USB drive to the FAT32 file system, remove the write protection or use CMD, PowerShell, or free software to do the same.

If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.

This guide show how to format a USB drive to FAT32 file system using File Explorer and Disk Management tool on a Windows 11/10 PC.

If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.

In fact, Windows is able to read larger FAT32 drives if they’ve been partitioned elsewhere, but Windows itself can’t format drives in FAT32 to sizes greater than 32GB. Because Microsoft.

While it was possible to create larger FAT32 partitions using third-party tools or PowerShell commands, the default Windows formatting tools imposed this restriction.