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This is what NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT actually mean — and when to use each

You plug in a fresh USB drive, Windows asks how you'd like to format it, and then you're staring at a dropdown menu offering three cryptic acronyms: NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. No explanation. No guidance ...
Ars Technica

How to format with fat32 for WinXP and Ghost problems.

In installing Windows XP Pro on a newly completed computer the program will format and partition but only in NTFS but I want to use FAT32. I would fdisk, partition and format with fat 32 but when I ...
BGR

What Your USB Drive's Formats Actually Mean (And How To Change Between Them)

When you connect a new USB drive or external drive to a laptop, phone, or another storage-compatible device, it's mostly unusable until you format it. Formatting a drive helps prepare and set up the ...
PC World

Choosing the right format for USB flash drives matters. Here’s why

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...