Samsung Tab 3 Tablet 64 Gb? EX FAT or NITFS or WHAT?

chaz

I have just brought a 64gb so I have more space to put my stuff on it but I can only doi t Exfat or NITFS now which one would be ok as my tab 3 is rather old i doubt that the Exfat would not work  so anyone got any idea the best way to get round this.Can I convert it to Fat32 or should I use NITFS. Thanks

sep8001

I presume you have bought a 64gb sd card to use with the tab, if that is correct, put it in the tab and let the tab format it so that it can read it correctly.

Once formatted, you can plug in the tab to a pc and copy data straight to the card.

chaz

I have done what you said but when I put the micro card into the tablet it does not recognise it where it says formatted it is greyed out. But when I put this 64Gb card  into  a card reader then plug it into a PC it says cannot read this card until it is formatted

chaz

I think I got it sorted I put the micro 64Gb in a card reader  put it into a spare USB port on the PC it came up straight away with the notice saying "THIS CARD CAN NOT BE USED UNTIL FORMATTED". So I had 2 choices either EX FAT  or NITFS  as the Tablet would not notice it before this.I chose EX FAT I then put the card into the tablet this time it noticed the card and then I let it format the card it seems to be OK  was that the right thing to do?

Sonic67

I don't think Android supports NTFS.

Have a look through this. It's about external hard drives but it has other information.

And if it works, it's fine.

Which Format To Use ?

Johnmcl7

I'm surprised the tablet wouldn't let you just format it straight off but you were right to choose exfat over NTFS because as pointed out above, Android doesn't support NTFS whereas exfat is the default format for SDXC cards (which are the ones over 32GB)

John

chaz

Tempest

Given that NTFS has been pushed totally as what Windows Users should be using for quite a few years now.
Is there any reason why, despite multiple new versions of Android have been released over the years, they won't support it?
Is it because is propitiatory to Windows and they don't want to go down that route?

Johnmcl7

Android can't really support NTFS, it's a proprietary system which is only supported in Linux and other systems through reverse engineering.

Although exFAT is also a proprietary Microsoft system but companies are able to license it, also it's designed for portable file systems to be better for that type of use than NTFS.

John