Can't format FAT32

[Bobby77501]

I am using WinXP Pro with some USB 2.0 Maxtor drives attached. When I go to
Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Disk Management and highlight a disk to
format, I then click on the drop-down list for type of format. Only NTFS
shows up as a choice - not FAT or FAT32. Does anyone know why? How do I
get around this if I decide to format as FAT32? Thanks.........

Bobby

 

[Mitchell]

Windows XP will only format using FAT32 up to 32GB. Since
its a USB 2.0 drive, I'm assuming its larger, you will
have to use NTFS.

 

[Michal Kawecki]

I am using WinXP Pro with some USB 2.0 Maxtor drives attached. When
I go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Disk Management and
highlight a disk to format, I then click on the drop-down list for
type of format. Only NTFS shows up as a choice - not FAT or FAT32.
Does anyone know why? How do I get around this if I decide to format
as FAT32? Thanks.........

You can make larger FAT32 partition than 32 GB on this disk with BootIt
NG http://www.terabyteunlimited.com, since it work with USB 2.0 drives.

 

[Bobby77501]

Thank you.......

Bobby

You can make larger FAT32 partition than 32 GB on this disk with BootIt
NG http://www.terabyteunlimited.com, since it work with USB 2.0 drives.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am using WinXP Pro with some USB 2.0 Maxtor drives attached. When I go to
Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Disk Management and highlight a disk to
format, I then click on the drop-down list for type of format. Only NTFS
shows up as a choice - not FAT or FAT32.

XP will not format a partition bigger than 32GB as FAT 32. And, while
it will *use* such a partition created by other means (eg a Win98 FDISK)
it is not something that would be a good idea except in some specialist
situations with a small number of large files (but all smaller than the
FAT 32 limit of 4GB each)