![]() If the USB drive you connected shows as ‘unallocated space’, you can create a large FAT32 partition directly in Partition Expert, to do so please follow these step: In the format window choose FAT32 from the drop down list of ‘File System’. ![]() Right-click on the partition you’d like to format and choose Format Volume.Run Partition Expert directly from the portable package and click Yes to the UAC dialog.PowerShell and diskpart performance slow when formatting to FAT32, we don’t have to wait that long to get a large FAT32 partition ready, alternatively, we can use other third party FAT32 format tool to save us a lot of time, the tool I’m about to use is Partition Expert Free Edition (freeware and portable), download this partition manager and we’ll start with the following step: So don’t close the PowerShell or CMD tool when formatting, if you do have to cancel it, press Ctrl+C 2. Side note: Don’t close Disk Management when it’s formatting a volume, or next time it will hang when you re-open it, and after it reaches 100%, the partition will become RAW Disk Management RAW partition Then PowerShell will start to format this volume, but this operation is buggie, I closed out the PowerShell window after typing those commands, but when I open Disk Management, it is still formatting, when I right-click on this volume and click Cancel format, guess what? nothing happened, the format process continued, and it does take me 5 minutes to reach 10%, and howtogeek shared his time on this operation: almost one hour on 64GB FAT32 formatting, also many other users had reported that this method is super slow on larger drives, Do we have a faster alternative? cancel format won't work in Windows 10 Disk Management If you don’t know which drive letter is, use the following commands to check and format in PowerShell: Type the command: format /fs:fat32 x: to format (replace X with the the real drive letter you’d like to format).Click Yes to the UAC (User Account Control) dialog.Click the Windows PowerShell (Admin) option.Right-click the Start button on Windows 10, or press Win+X instead. ![]() We can using the following steps to create a partition with FAT32 file system which is large than 32GB in size: PowerShell format to large FAT32 partition ![]() Convert NTFS to FAT32 without data loss -quickġ.PowerShell / Command Prompt (cmd) - slow. ![]()
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