Question Flash drive problem

[mysteryy234]

Okay so, the problem I had was I took a windows 10 bootable usb drive I had and that I used rufus to make. reformatted it to fat32 through command prompt and cleaned it before i did a full format. I wanted to use it to play music off it to my radio and other devices, however nothing would read the mp3 files on there. The only solution I found on youtube was using rufus again to format it with freeDOS and then when I put music on there everything I was wanting to play music on would read it fine. Any ideas what would have caused this problem?

 

[Tech Junky]

Either format should be readable and playable. now, you mention radio... Assuming in the car? I have a 128gb SD card in my android unit and it works fine. Due to size though I had to get creative on how to format it to fat32 or maybe just let the android format it and then copy the files to it. I think it either used fat or ext for Linux since its android. Try putting it into the radio and see if it prompts to format it.

 

[mysteryy234]

It works fine now in all my devices after formatting it to freeDOS with Rufus, but before that it didn't work with any method of formatting I tried. Idk if making it a bootable drive had messed the code up on it in some way or not. Don't see how it would though

 

[Tech Junky]

bootable drive

Could if it made a small partition at the beginning of the drive.

 

[pcgeek11]

Probably had a hidden EFI Partition.

Diskpart would have gotten rid of it too.