

When launched, it displays a list of applications found on an SD card or USB drive. Recently, I needed the pendrive for some school work, so I backed up all files to my pc and formatted it (still in fat32). The homebrew software that you added to your SD card will be displayed in the menu … Reformat the SD card to FAT32, use the full/long/overwrite setting instead of the quick one, redownload USB Loader GX and put it on the SD card. 1 Can the Homebrew Channel be updated to a newer version from the HBC itself? Reformat the SD card to FAT32, use the full/long/overwrite setting instead of the quick one, redownload USB Loader GX and put it on the SD card.

Without installing a file system driver on the PC those are your choices, and in my experience third party FSDs will tend to cause BSODs because FSDs are not that easy to write on Windows.Homebrew channel not reading usb. In general if the devices you need to copy files between all support exFAT or NTFS they're probably a better bet than FAT32, but as of 2013 support for FAT32 is likely to be both more common and more bulletproof in non-PC devices that either exFAT or NTFS. With a 3TB drive the FATs will be 349MB which will take ~10-20 seconds to read over USB 2.0, though you won't notice much delay over USB 3.0 That's not to say that using FAT32 on such a large device is necessarily a good idea - Windows will take some seconds to mount it because it seems like it reads one or both of the FATs as part of the mounting process. The picture shows a WD My Book 3TB External Hard Drive. However some(all?) >2TB external drives use 4K sectors.

With 512 byte sectors that means a 2TB drive. It issues a FSCTL_ALLOW_EXTENDED_DASD_IO which experimentally seems to fix a strange problem (Windows bug?) where all the writes succeed but nothing actually changes on disk.įAT32 is limited to 2^32 sectors. It also has a fix for making drives bootable using bootsect.exe from the Windows AIK, aka Windows PE.

The latest version has support for GPT drives.
