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Keep it civil and on topic. SOLVED Hey Reddit, i seem to be having some troubles with the ExFAT file system in Windows 10. My version of the OS is Win10 Pro x64. I have a usb with a ton of music and a copy of Windows XP Pro 32-bit meant for Oracle's VirtualBox. The usb is 8Gb and i formatted it on my macbook running OSX Mavericks for ExFAT because this seems to be the only available file system that is (supposedly) compatible with both windows and OSX yet windows recognizes the drive but says that i need to format it to use it. I know that you can format the drive for NTFS and enable that file system on OSX but i cant enable NTFS on the mac because the command prompt is blocked by my schools tech administration (got the machine from my school). How do i get windows to recognize ExFAT and allow me to read and write with this file system?TL;DR How do i get windows to recognize ExFAT and allow me to read and write to this filesystem?EDIT: turns out that the ExFAT filesystem tool that i used to make the partition made it so that the partitions made with it would be locked after a set trial period.

That period had ended and locked the partition from being used.

I am under the impression, correct or not, that exFAT would be the preferred formatting for a Solid State Drive, when used as a boot/system drive (or even in general), because exFAT would tend to shuffle less overhead data on the disk, thus extending its life expectancy.I experimented by using KB955704 on XP to format a small, old hard drive with the exFAT file system (no problems doing that), and then trying to install XP on that drive. The experiment failed at nearly the very beginning of the installation process, because XP would not recognize the drive as having a compatible file system. That was not really unexpected, of course, but I had to try it.The interesting question is, whether there might be any possibility of bringing exFAT litteracy to the text-mode installation phase of XP. If possible at all, I suspect it might require modifying Txtsetup.sif (and Dosnet.inf) to make the exFAT driver files available at the beginning (as may be done to integrate SATA drivers), and possibly modifying registry entries in Setupreg.hiv (as may be done in Win2k to enable 48bit LBA support at installation). Unfortunately, however, I am capable of only suspecting these things.I wonder, if anybody has more or better information on whether, and how, one might use an exFAT-formatted boot/system drive with XP? Edited June 14, 2010 by Inki.

Windows Xp Exfat Patch

Thank you for your suggestions.I am afraid that /integrate: is not the solution. And just to be sure, I did run it and then used Winmerge to see what changes were made to the source. As I suspected, the changes were of the kind that I guess /integrate: typically does, which lead to the hotfix being applied during installation, but do not change the text-mode setup in any way. For it to work, I suspect that the drivers have to be manually slipstreamed.Your second suggestion seems to me much more promising, and I think it is a clever notion to exchange FAT32 and exFAT.

However, my gut feeling is that it might require more than changing that one entry, and I don't really trust myself to be able to implement the idea properly. The most that I have been able to do is integrate some SATA drivers into the source by following instructions on how to do that, and I feel that this might require some deeper understanding just to experiment effectively.Edited addition:Hmm, I just realized, that the initiator of this thread seems to have been banned, for whatever reason. Well, I didn't pay any attention to his/her status when I did a search for exFAT, and found that the thread title and the content of the previous posts matched my issue exactly. It is not something that I would normally expect to have to check for, and I am not sure if it should matter. So, I will just hope that it doesn't discourage anybody from contributing to this issue, which I think is interesting and potentially useful. Still, if it is more desirable, I can of course always start a new thread. Edited June 14, 2010 by Inki.

I believe that there is more to using the exfat file system than just replacing file system drivers, but I am guessing here, although I know a lot about exfat and the specification.First of all, it would be interesting to see how, after a xp system is built, how recycle bin would be handled since the directory entries are different as well as how deleted files are handled under exfat.Building an os on top of exfat, as well asvfat32 would be avail system without file permissions. Vista and windows 7 require the file permissions, so you can't build those systems on fat32 or exfat, but you are talking xp here, which still may be on fat32.Another issue is the boot sector, that is the VBR, which has a different format, and is 12 sectors, where in fat32 it is 3 sectors, and the bios parm block is different in the first sector. The exfat drivers might not handle this in xp. So an issue is if you could get some of the os to load, if you will succeed in booting it.I have yet to see any bootable code on an exfat drive, although I am interested to see itvwork. Another issue is the boot sector, that is the VBR, which has a different format, and is 12 sectors, where in fat32 it is 3 sectors, and the bios parm block is different in the first sector. The exfat drivers might not handle this in xp. So an issue is if you could get some of the os to load, if you will succeed in booting it.I have yet to see any bootable code on an exfat drive, although I am interested to see itvworkThe problem is that the BOOTMGR (or the NTLDR) knows nothing about exFAT, so they cannot possibly initiate the booting from it.Maybe (and I am saying maybe) it would be possible to create an 'XP Kansas City Shuffle' kicker, but it's another untested/undocumented thing:jaclaz.