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Fat32 External Hard Drive is read-only?
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1210221" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Cluster slack and wasted space is the reason why large hard drives are routinely formatted as NTFS since it uses a consistent 4K cluster size. FAT-32 will default to 32K clusters for any drive over 32 GB which is very wasteful.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No one accused you of being rude otherwise you would have heard differently. Thanks for posting back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1210221, member: 46727"] Cluster slack and wasted space is the reason why large hard drives are routinely formatted as NTFS since it uses a consistent 4K cluster size. FAT-32 will default to 32K clusters for any drive over 32 GB which is very wasteful. No one accused you of being rude otherwise you would have heard differently. Thanks for posting back. [/QUOTE]
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