However fat32 is a legacy file system designed for low capacity hard drives and it is not recommended for modern hard drives or operating systems.
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If the computer is rebooted then the drive will not mount on the desktop or show up in disk utility.
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If you have followed all of these steps and the drive is still not recognized shut down your computer wait 3 to 5 minutes restart your computer and try again.
If the device doesn t show up at all move on and make it detectable.
A fat32 partition can reach up to 32gb when formatted on a windows pc.
How to choose the file system format.
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If the external hard drive shows as raw or no media follow part 2 with the provided solution for help.
Press power button for 5 sec to turn hard drive back on.
Finally if your drive is online and formatted but doesn t show a drive letter next to its name right click the volume and choose change drive letter and paths to add a drive letter.
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