[SOLVED] Formatting USB-Sticks to FAT32 with more than 32Gb?

I have personally never bought a "USB stick" that did not come in FAT format but anyhow, you can just Google and there are lots of free software out there.   Partition Magic is a good one that I had used before. Another one I have used is AOMEI Partition Assistant. You can also do this in lynx or windows from command line but the software is easier if you are not comfortable with command line.

The CDJ would not crash as a result of you formatting it. It will not work in NTSF format anyways.

If you still need help, write back.

they may come in FAT format, but I was told that I should always format usb sticks when I buy them to use on CDJs.

Then I realised that I cant format usb sticks with more than 32gb in FAT32 format.

even if the usb stick has more than 32 gb there is absolute no problem of formating as FAT32 and use it on CDJs right?

No there is no problem at all if you format as long as you format to FAT16, FAT32 or HFS+.  That's what the CDJ will read.

Great! thanks

I found one called GUIformat, when I try to use it, it gives me options like "Allocation size unit = 32768" or 65536

When formatting a 64Gb USB-Stick I should choose this "65536" option right?

Use the default allocation size.  I never touch anything else.

Ok, thanks!

FYI,

By having a larger cluster size you effectively have a larger chunk of data sent to ram rather than having to read multiple smaller chunks of the same data.

No problem :)

Hm so choosing a larger cluster size I would make the USB-Stick faster?

Yes but you don't necessarily need to.  The CDJ should handle the default speeds/cluster size just fine.  I doubt you need to tweak it.  I would personally stick with safe given you want reliability.  I am not sure if it would fail but just saying that the normal should be good enough so why change it.

hehehe understood, thanks

You're welcome and don't format your flash drive too much.  They say it decreases the life, unlike hard drives.  Not sure how accurate but that's what I have been told.

I was told that I should format the USB-Stick two times in FAT32 after buying it, to be sure that it wont crash or bug the CDJ

So I plan to format just two times

:) I also do that to all my drives but a lot of my "computer geeky friends" laugh at me ;)

Well my 32Gb usb-sticks are working flawlessly since ever on the cdjs. As you said, if it's working, why change it :D

Now I'm going to buy some Kingston DT HyperX 3.0 64Gb so it will be much faster to load it with 70Mb tracks

I'm glad it all worked out for you D.

I checked those sticks out on line, they are expensive =)