

Is there a way to force it to be formatted as exFAT?. The problem is, it only appears to be available to format as NTFS. I want to format it to exFAT instead of NTFS so that it doesn’t have to deal with permissions. I have an internal hard drive that I use as storage where I dump the stuff I need backed up. But if the drive is larger than 32GB, you may find that there is only the NTFS file system option.

When you format a drive using File Explorer or Windows Disk Management, if the drive is smaller than 32GB, there are FAT32 and NTFS format options. Other Issues Related to exFAT File System.This post from MiniTool Partition Wizard tells you how to solve this problem and why the Windows doesn’t offer the exFAT format option. Do you want to format a hard drive to exFAT in Windows 11/10/8/7? You may encounter the no exFAT format option issue.
