Comments on: How to Format a USB or SD Card on a Chromebook (Tutorial)

By: luke

luke — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:51:59 +0000

hi my name is luke and i have a question is there any way you can get more storage devices for a chromebook

By: fred

fred — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:36:34 +0000

FAT32 is an old and obsolete format used when Windows 95 was new. Do your readers a favor and tell them to format their micro sd cards with the exfat format, so they can save files bigger than 4 GB in size. FAT32 cannot do that!

By: fred

fred — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:05:29 +0000

You make it sound like everything is just so fine with Chrome OS NOT BEING able to format an SD card to anything but FAT32. This is a really old file system, and it’s crap. It can’t handle a file more than 4 GB in size. Why Chromebooks can read NTFS formatted USB drives but not NTFS formatted SDCards is unclear to me, but it really limits what you can do with the sdcard. Another poor choice by the Chrome OS team.

By: Enlightened_One

Enlightened_One — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:37:49 +0000

Thank you so much! This was super helpful. I’m trying to get the most out of Chromebook as I intend to use it for more than light browsing. So I’ve been thinking of expanding the storage via SD card (setting a preference for external storage).

I’ve been trying to understand more on how SD cards work and how I needed to format a new SD card before using it long term in the PC. I think I get it now, but still do you think formating a newly purchased SDcard to FAT32 or xFAT would make it easier for the Chromebook to read and write directly there? What are some pros and cons and what might you suggest?

Whatever formatting needs to be done, I plan to do it on a windows PC so that I can choose the format type.

By: dave n

dave n — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:50:58 +0000

thank you