Mar 29, 2017 - Right click on USB partition, then select 'Format'. Next, you can choose FAT32 or exFAT as the file system. Click 'OK' to finish PS4 USB storage device format. When using Disk Management to format a partition, 'The format did not complete successfully' error may appear. To share a USB drive between a Mac and a Windows PC, there are two disk formats to choose from: exFAT and FAT32. The other formats -- Microsoft's NTFS and Apple's Mac OS Extended -- don't work well on the other operating system. • • • • • • • • • • • • One of the best solutions we strongly recommend for PS4 users is to use an external hard drive to second the current internal hard drive in holding the loads of downloaded games and movies you decided to keep handy and are not ready to waive. That’s because the stock hard drive cannot handle many heavyweight AAA-grade PS4 games that come with around 40GB or even 50GB file size, let alone the UHD movies, even with the new release of PS4 that ships with 1TB hard drive capacity. In our We have suggested a few solutions to work around this problem, one of them is to use an external hard drive for the purpose of backup, with which you can alleviate the burden on the internal hard drive and give more space for the new downloaded files. But using an external hard drive with PS4 requires you to format the drive with the relevant file system in order to be able to use it properly with PS4, and below is a step-by-step guide to how to do that. There are two ways to format the external hard drive to work properly with PS4 depending on the purpose you want to use the external hard drive for on PS4. Please determine your purpose then read one of the two guides below. Whether you’re formatting an internal drive, external drive, USB flash drive, or SD card, Windows will give you the choice of NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. But PS4 only supports two of these file systems—FAT32 and exFAT. FAT32 is an older file system that’s largely relegated to USB flash drives and other external drives. Windows uses NTFS for its system drive, and it’s also ideal for other internal drives. ExFAT is a modern replacement for FAT32, and more devices support it than do NTFS — although it’s not as widespread as FAT32. FAT32 File System FAT32 was first introduced all the way back in Windows 95 to replace the older FAT16 file system promoting new major improvements and breaking the limitations of FAT16. When compared to exFAT which was first introduced in 2006, FAT32 is too old, and because of its long age it’s the defacto standard. Flash drives you purchase will often come formatted with FAT32 for maximum compatibility across not just modern computers, but other devices like game consoles (including PS4) and anything with a USB port. Limitation of FAT32 with PS4 When considering using an external hard drive for PS4, the most significant problem with FAT32 is the maximum file size it allows. Individual files on a FAT32 drive can’t be over 4GB in size — that’s the maximum! That means if you have a single game file which size is larger than 4GB, it cannot, by any means, be saved on a drive that’s formatted with FAT32, whether it’s an external or internal drive. That makes FAT32 unsuitable for use on external hard drives dedicated for PS4 because a modern standard PS4 game comes with much larger than 4GB file size.
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