Besides, single file maximum size gets over 4GB is not common in small sized games in PS4. But if you don't want to spend time on making a backup and restoring after formatted, you can do a conversion on NTFS file system, just convert it to FAT32, another supported file system for PS4, with Partition Expert. #4, Convert NTFS to FAT32 without data lossįormat to exFAT is one method to use PS4, after backing up and restoring data to the external disk, may take some time but won't meet the limitation of FAT32 file system, which is 4GB maximum size of single /individual file.
Right-click on Start Menu of Windows 10 and select Command Prompt (Admin) In the popup window, we select exFAT and start to format. I've run Windows 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, WFWG 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and now Windows 10, each for the period of time before the next version came out, and each on two or more machines here. If the external disk shows volume label in Disk Management, just click Format… from the right-click menu after you backed up private data. With a modicum of care, it should never be necessary to reinstall Windows (any version). This makes it foolproof and is the only true Clean Install.
Now it's time to click exFAT under File system option. Necessary formatting is done during install by choosing the UEFI version of the included bootable media, deleting all partitions down to Unallocated Space to clear formatting, then ideally click Next to let it auto-create and -format needed partitions and begin. Click ' Recovery ' option on the left navigation options and then click ' Get Started ' button under ' Reset this PC ' section.
On Windows Settings pane click ' Update & Security ' option. Right-click on the space representing your external hard drive, then. Click ' Start ' menu and select ' Settings ' option. Disk Management shows a list of all connected drives, including your internal hard drive. If it shows unallocated space, right-click on it and click New Simple Volume, follow the wizard to create new partition, click NEXT slowly and stop at the Format Partition window. Here are steps to wipe a hard drive in Windows 10: Step 1. Check the disk map in the main interface to see if the external hard drive shows unallocated space or volume Press Windows + R to open Run box and type: diskmgmt.msc, hit Enter and Disk Management will show Restore the backed up files to this disk again, may spend some time according to the file size. In the new window, select exFAT from the File System dropdown menu and leave Quick Format checked click Start to Format. Now Right-click on the external disk, and select "Format" When you plugged in the external drive, Press Win+E to open file explorer, if it shows Quick Access in Windows 10, do like this to change it to File Explorer, like we get used to it in Windows 7. Tip: exFat is only supported on MBR disk, if you're using GPT disk, try to create a large FAT32 partition instead Game Console \ File System